But if I were the parent of student at the University of Michigan subjected to this palaver, I’d sue for brain damage to my child.
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Uh, I think it is a bad link, Roger. And here I was looking forward to another Juan Cole outrage.
Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing, and academic freedom of speech is also wonderful. However, just this morning I was posting about ending my support to Hamilton College. They’ve been bringing to campus (Clinton NY, out in the sticks)lots of controversial speakers with all expenses paid. This year alone they offered a job to convicted felon Sue Rosenberg, who previously had been a guest speaker. I guess they couldn’t find any instructors in memoir writing with no prison experience. This week they’re hosting Che-wannabe (Dennis posted about it, too).
Do I want my alumni contributions to support that?
No thank you.
Fausta,
I went to your site and found Chris Muir’s strip at the top. He sure nailed it today, didn’t he.
Chuck, Chris Muir always does! And no one can say he’s over-hyping, either
It is a profound embarassment to be on the same faculty as Cole. Of course, in Ann Arbor, I am the one considered an embarassment. The best definition of Ann Arbor (home to the University of Michigan) is “15 square miles surrounded by reality”.
Education is way to expensive for this kind of prattle. People get second mortgages so that their kids can go to a university and listen to this crap.
I would suggest young people become plumbers, the world will always need plumbers.
Just this AM my Better Two-Thirds took a call from Our Youngest, a college frosh, who was livid. She’d just returned from one of her classes where the professor had been blathering on about some Theory of Whatever that my daughter knew quite well and well knew that it was largely outdated claptrap. She was seriously livid along the lines of, “What am I supposed to do when the professor is telling the whole class a bunch of stuff that I know is incorrect? I can’t tell her, in front of the whole class, that the stuff she’s pushing on us is ten years out of date!”
It reminds me of when my nephew gave me a call. He’d narrowed his college search to two schools. At the time he thought he wanted to study computer science and wanted my opinion regarding the two schools. So I went to their websites and dredged up their coarse catalogs and had a looksie. I knew the one school reasonably well and, as I expected, their CS curricullum was very up to date. That’s why, after all, computer companies recuited their students and supported their research and projects. The other school was at least a decade behind the curve and anyone who came out of there with a CS degree was headed for a job doing maintenence programming on tired ol’ “legacy” applications. Fortunately the kid took my advice and picked the school that stayed up with the times. And, fortunately, the course my daughter is complaining about is just a core requirement rather than something she’ll have to overcome pursuing her major.
But still… this is not a rinky-dink, who the hell ever heard of that type school. How can they go on blathering nonsense that kids with a decent HS education know has been tossed out with last decades trash? Do the “elites” ever stop and update their knowledge?
Terrrye, at our local technical college, there is something like a three year waiting list to get into plumbing. Some people are getting the message about academe.
knucklehead — I’m going to assume your “coarse catalogs” was deliberate…*g*
Richard,
Well, ummm…, like…, yaknow…, the few online catalogs of those institutions of higher education which I’ve compared to the printed versions do lack some granularity, but, ummm…, like…, yaknow, I have to plead laziness or Freudian slip rather than willfullness.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.