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Of course not. Just look at how Summers got treated for even attempting a middle of the road approach. Conservative Profs have to be silent or get ostracized. The tenured ones in hard disciplines [including law] can be more open, but even then they are pressured.
I really like the comment from an my earlier post by Hanson.
TAE: What is your idea of a perfect curriculum?
HANSON: My curriculum is old-fashioned. It's a zero sum game, and there are only so many disciplines that will always exist: literature, mathematics, biology, hard science, foreign language, politics, philosophy. To make space, I would eliminate anything that has the word "studies" in it: ethnic studies, women's studies, cultural studies, American studies. That would free up about 25 percent of the current therapeutic curriculum.
Most of the new things that universities are trying to introduce are not academic subjects. They're just popular culture dressed up as learning. Not only are these not university subjects, but they come at the expense of time diverted from real education. For every hour a kid is in Chicano studies or environmental studies classes, he's not learning history or philosophy. |
