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Thread #163848 Message #3916094
Posted By: beardedbruce
09-Apr-18 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: present generation of student activism
Subject: RE: BS: present generation of student activism
Jeri,
So when ONLY the conservative viewpoint was taught, it idicated that the liberal view had problems with truthfulness?
Acme,
As I stated, MY problem is with the idea that ONLY one siode is permitted to be expressed.
TO REPEAT ( Since some here seemed to miss it):
Should only ONE side be presented in education?- I say NO. Not ONLY the Conservative side, but also NOT ONLY THE LIBERAL one. The protests are not that the Liberal side is being prevented from being made, but that the Conservative side is ALSO being presented.
"There is a lot going on in these demands, including an attempt to turn universities into organs of leftist indoctrination, with all opposing viewpoints rigorously purged. (The Dartmouth demands include a provision specifically targeting the school’s conservative student newspaper, the Dartmouth Review, while Boston College protesters demands that their school “Reform Pedagogy & Curriculum to Reduce Eurocentric Focus and Address Racism and diversity in the classroom.” So much for “academic freedom.”) Much of the students’ agenda consists of commanding universities to hire a specific group of people."
"What good universities want to teach is critical thinking."
I am in total agreement with this- a pity that the protestors do not appear to be.