Personal relationship is critical to success in grad school. If there is any doubt that you are not on the same page as your professor in your grad work, the advise is to move on, lest a big black stain is left on your permanent record.
The other thing to consider is PERSPECTIVE. Many people have no idea they are being indoctrinated (indoctrination at its best) because they never see an opposing view. They don’t even know that what is being said is liberal because they’ve never heard anything else. My sister (a raging liberal) loudly announced she was one of the most conservative member of her group of friends and couldn’t understand why people had an issue with what she was saying.
Reality: Those who can, do. Those who can’t , teach
I think you may have watched too many John Wayne westerns. You’re right about the very high suicide rate among Native Americans and the proliferation of drugs and disease, however. But why do you suppose there is this problem?
You may as well finish the thought: And those who can’t teach, teach how to teach.
Or they teach PE. Or go to Japan and teach English.
You have any evidence that this is actually true? Sure it is an old saying, but there are a lot of old sayings that aren’t true.
Thanks-I knew there was a third part. My brother (who has a PHD in English) told me that joke. My brother was the only classroom teacher in his district that had a PHD. Taught Engilsh for 30 years in a High School. Retired to the mountains and teaches on line for several universities. He is Liberal BUT he always refused to join the NEA-said he was a professional and wasn’t comfortable joining a union.
Interesting. However it doesn’t cover your post, or true reality at all. You seem to be saying that reality confines us to a few simple choices as far as political, and or financial systems go. Your definition seems to refer to recognizing consequences, and situations. When what history teaches us about reality is that it exist despite any stressors we impose on ourselves. As we have seen, we can make things pretty hard on our enemis, and ourselves. But, we can not match reality for cruelty, and limits of possibility. Speaking for myself, I could get along without a society of any sort. As long as God allows, that is. Just as I could survive in a Communist, Fascist, Capitalist, or Socialist society. All which are in the boundaries set by reality. Just because one system fell to another does not mean that it was not allowed by reality. It fell because of choices made by humans. Or perhaps God in a few instances. Your own definition should help you to form the obvious conclusion here.
It was a joke!
I realize that, but some people actually think it is a fact.
Perhaps they personal experience to draw upon?
I don’t think we helped the Indians any more than the Human society helps the pit bulls they “rescue”. As another thought, the Republican party the professor rails against did not exist during the conquest of the America’s. In true conservative fashion they show up after the danger has passed.
American Indians do not have to live on reservations. They can live anywhere they want to in the USA. In fact, they have the best of both in the USA. American Indians can live on reservations, not pay property taxes and get free medical care from govt. They can work outside reservations and bring the money back to reservations. Or American Indians can live outside reservations, pay property taxes and so on. Non-Indians can not live on a reservation if a tribe doesn’t want them.
Hmmm. Kendra was kind enough to share her personal experiences with us. Thanking her would be more appropriate.
“Those who are not liberal when they are are young have no heart, those who remain liberal as they mature have no mind”Hmmm. Kendra was kind enough to share her personal experiences with us. Thanking her would be more appropriate.
ATB
Yes I remember being taught how liberal democrats killed millions of Native Americans to make the contry safe…I don’t think we helped the Indians any more than the Human society helps the pit bulls they “rescue”. As another thought, the Republican party the professor rails against did not exist during the conquest of the America’s. In true conservative fashion they show up after the danger has passed.
ATB
I don’t think there can be any dispute that conservatives are vastly outnumbered on college campuses. One question is why is that? Is it because conservatives are being discriminated against? I have not seen evidence of any conspiracy to keep conservatives out of academia. It seems more likely that they seek different career paths, which is neither good nor bad. As a conservative myself, aside from living through a couple rants, I have not experienced anything negative from being a conservative on campus.
So you’re arguing that someone who’s college-aged and who experiences a university environment on a daily basis is less knowledgable on what happens at a university than a 50+ year-old (not you) who hasn’t seen the campus of a university in 30 years, just because one is older? Because that makes sense.
Edit: also, if it’s “well-documented,” how come no one here has been able to show evidence of it being widespread? I have 3 newspaper articles (2 from the Pacific NW), a study of the 32 most-liberal private schools in New England and the Pacific NW, and a study that refuses to detail which schools they studied. Surely there could be better evidence gathered than this if it was, in any way, “well-documented.”
What’s more likely is that Kendra and I are right, as people who have experienced many different college campuses each in the last 5 years due to our age. We also have a wide plethora of friends at various colleges (including a HUGE quantity of Southern friends in my case), and I guarantee you that many of those Southern schools are extremely conservative, especially in their political science departments.
