[PeterParker]

I came across this nugget the other day...Enjoy. Regardless of the topic broached, if this is the type of logic/reasoning that Ivys are cultivating in their students these days, then LU doesn't have as far to go as I thought in order to compete academically with them.


From their student newspaper, The Columbia Spectator:

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/27969

Here at Columbia, as at most top universities, we enjoy belittling conservative beliefs. Even the professors are in on it, and conservatives often find their beliefs directly challenged by academic trickery, like thinking about things, and facts. But shouldn’t good pedagogy incorporate all sides of an issue? No, it should not. If conservativism is absent from the University, it’s because it hasn’t earned its way in...

...Speaking pragmatically, it doesn’t really matter why campuses are liberal, because we don’t have a way to change that. Theoretically, schools could start hiring professors based on their political beliefs, but that’s uncomfortably like totalitarianism, or, even worse, some kind of affirmative action. Of course, if academia is truly a marketplace, and there are truly students interested in conservative education, then we ought to see the emergence of conservative universities. So far we have at least one. It’s called Liberty University, and it is to academia what Larry the Cable Guy is to the performing arts...

This was my favorite:

But shouldn’t good pedagogy incorporate all sides of an issue? No, it should not.

The comments at the bottom in response to the article are entertaining. I happen to agree with the part of the professor's reply who offers that it is a disservice to the student to only expose them to a favored side of a subject as it ill-equips them to understand the ins and outs of opposing viewpoints.