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![]() Just Above Sunset
April 3, 2005 - The Uses of Philosophy
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Teaching is getting dangerous
– see this - an item by someone (Jacqueline Marcus) who teaches philosophy at a college in Florida. In the Florida legislature, House Republicans, on the Choice and Innovation Committee, recently
voted to pass a bill that threatens to restrain academic scholars. The law would allow students to sue teachers for beliefs
that do not concur with conservative perspectives. If, for example, professors argue that evolution is a scientific fact instead
of a theory, and if they don’t devote equal time to creationism, under this bill, initiated by conservative David Horowitz’s
campaign, students can sue the professor for being biased. Whine, whine, whine …
A conservative student actually tried to push me aside at the beginning of class, dressed for
the occasion in his tie and suit, with a digital camera, to deliver his Thou SHALL Kill presentation. It never occurred to
him to discuss his proposal with me after class or during my office hours. He simply presumed that he was at equal status
with the teacher, and that he has the “Academic Freedom” to take up precious class time with his flaky opinions
on interpreting the word “kill” in the 6th Commandment. Hey, kids don’t want
to learn what they don’t know to be true. - Will a professor be able to counter-sue the student on grounds of terminal stupidity? And over at FAFBLOG the
Medium Lobster has this to say - Freedom is ever-marching, and its latest target for emancipation is none other than the Gulag
Academia, where millions of students are held hostage by totalitarian educators whose cruel practice of teaching them things
they don't already believe could soon be put to an end. America's youth will be
free to live in a world consisting solely of their own pre-existing beliefs, where messy ideological review and examination
of fact have become unnecessary? So be it.
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