Posted by
Steve on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:17:17 PM
On the way to work today, I listened to Dennis Prager on KKNT 960 AM. The main topic he was talking about was higher education and a study done by UCLA on the top ten issues that are important to college professors.
The top two issues were to make the students do community service and to make the students honor other races. As Dennis Prager said, if you wanted to do community service to help the “Mormon” Church, would the college professors think that was community service? The answer is obvious, college professors mean leftist community service like feeding the homeless, not things that would build up the community.
The second issue is race. Liberals see race in everything they do. Conservatives do not see race, unless it is brought to their attention. I am particularly color blind when it comes to racial issues. I have children or in-laws or nephews that are of every racial group. As a result, I generally do not even know what a person’s race is until they bring it to my attention. If they are a different color, I just use that as one of their identifying marks like a scar or hair color. As a scientist, I know that each of us are generally alike when it comes to our genes. Our DNA is so similar that, except for sex, it would be difficult to tell which sample was which from my class of students of different races. There are markers that can tell where your DNA originated, but generally we are genetically alike regardless of what color we happen to be. The differences between races are cultural, not genetic.
Dennis Prager said that teaching students comes in tenth of the top ten things that college professors are concerned with. As an aside, he said that he has heard that community college teachers are generally better than university teachers. That is because community college teachers are there to teach and university professors are there to do research, not teach. University professors do not get promoted on the basis of how well they teach. They get promoted on how much money they can bring in to the university in the form of grants or on how much they get published. Teaching is a low priority at universities when it comes to professors. Community college teachers are there because they like to teach. They get promoted on how well they teach, not on how much money they bring in. For that reason, you will get better teachers in a community college than in any 4-year college or university. There are exceptions to that rule. There are excellent university professors, but they are rare.
Most of higher education is little more than indoctrination into liberal groupthink. The exceptions to that statement generally come in the sciences. In English, History and the humanities in general, liberal groupthink is the norm. In the sciences, you cannot generally teach the liberal claptrap and be looked at as a serious scientist. The exception to that is global warming. You can believe in global warming and be promoted, but that is disappearing as the evidence is mounting against global warming. Most serious scientists have rejected global warming as an ideology and are sticking to the facts. That is the best way for any true scientist to follow.
As Dennis Prager said, never has so much been spent to teach your children things you do not believe. Many universities are concerned with turning out good liberals, not educated citizens. I know at my school, in the sciences you get a real education. In the liberal arts, you get liberalism 101. That is why our students complain about having to think in our classes. They say that they do not have to think in their other classes. That is a real shame.