Well, as most researchers would tell you is that anecdotal observations are important, but they should not be utilized to make broad generalizations.
Dr. G., you can't be this naive.
Look around you. Read news sources other than those you are comfortable with. Throughout the US the left has almost completely taken over not only primary & secondary schools, but especially, post-secondary. And, not only instructors but students, as well.
Just a few, non-isolated examples currently in the media: Mizzou, Berkely, Evergreen.
Why do you think there are now "safe spaces" where the horror of free speech is not heard & rooms where progressive snowflakes can "heal" with kittens, puppies & hot chocolate, among other things?
And, just because you say these things are not happening doen't mean they aren't. To wit:
The left has taken over universities as well as most high schools, and like almost everything the left has influenced — education, religion, the arts and the economies of most countries — this influence has been destructive.
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Entire books have been written providing hundreds of examples of left-wing indoctrination having replaced education in American universities. FAU is just the latest example.
Michael Gove is right. My time studying History at school and university was dominated by Left-wing thinking.
Consciously or subconsciously, the educational elite indoctrinates a generation of young people.
The dominance of the Left is deep-rooted and for all to see, especially when it comes to the teaching of history. I write as a 21-year-old graduate of History and Politics, just six months out of university.
Don't get me wrong: I had some superb teachers and lecturers, both throughout my time at school and while studying for my degree - individuals who enthused and inspired and knew their subjects inside out.
But the majority of them were rabidly Left-wing and the subjects they chose for their students matched their own misguided outlook on society.
No one wishes to discuss candidly that universities are no longer free bastions of inquiry but are descending into would-be boot camps to train progressive shock troops.
Now, some will attack the sources above. Frankly, I could care less. How about discussing the argument?
Even something as simple & understandable as a tribute to victims of 9/11 is seen as an affront. WTF?
The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns—insulting, childish concerns—that Muslim students would be offended.
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This is why it is important to experience teachers with all points of views.
So, in an area dominated by leftist thinking, exactly where does one find teachers "with all points of view"? Easier said than done. It's not like there a lot of choice.
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Ontario's minister responsible for post-secondary education says 185,000 students have received free tuition this year under a new government program.
Advanced Education Minister Deb Matthews announced the figures Monday, which equal more than a third of all full-time college and university students in Ontario.
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The notion of a degree is becoming pretty cheap coin these days. Offering free tuition may allow more students to partake, but it will cheapen the value of it even more. If everybody has a degree, then only what they learned will matter--this will become the new criterion for hiring.
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If everybody has a degree, then only what they learned will matter--this will become the new criterion for hiring.
I'm not convinced. You heard about the massive security breach at Equifax a few days back? The Chief Security Officer at Equifax? Her education consisted of a BA & MFA in musical composition.
Know what this looks like to me? Just another occurrence of hiring the best minority, rather than someone who was actually qualified for the job.
There is nothing to convince me that this type of bogus hiring practice will cease any time in the near future.
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It's hard to get past hiring quotas. I meant that if everybody has a degree, then there will be other criteria for hiring.
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I'm not convinced. You heard about the massive security breach at Equifax a few days back? The Chief Security Officer at Equifax? Her education consisted of a BA & MFA in musical composition.
Know what this looks like to me? Just another occurrence of hiring the best minority, rather than someone who was actually qualified for the job.
There is nothing to convince me that this type of bogus hiring practice will cease any time in the near future.
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It makes it so at the three schools with which I have direct experience and at dozens of schools where others I know have direct experience.
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There are no right-leaners at the high school with which I am most familiar. One centrist.
Well, you would have to have observed and interviewed each of these teachers for this statement to be valid.
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The notion of a degree is becoming pretty cheap coin these days. Offering free tuition may allow more students to partake, but it will cheapen the value of it even more. If everybody has a degree, then only what they learned will matter--this will become the new criterion for hiring.
Actually, we agree here. I am in favor of free tuition for qualified students. However, it is coming to the point where just like a high school diploma was the necessary basic requirement for job advancement, then it became a BA/BS/B.Ed/BSW, etc., now a master's degree is the basic requirement. In some areas, not even a doctorate is enough. When I got my doctorate from the Univ. of Georgia in literacy education, it was one of the, if not THE top university in this area (according to the International Reading Assoc.), I still had to demonstrate that I could effectively teach certain courses and be the director for Memorial's Reading Clinic and Reading Institute. I did in my initial two year appointment .......... and stayed there for 38 1/2. Sadly, the person they hired when I retired in not, in my opinion, qualified to teach most of our literacy education courses.
So, I agree it is what one has learned and what one is able to actually do with this learning that should become the criteria for hiring, regardless of the field.
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read these books." Mark Twain
Look around you. Read news sources other than those you are comfortable with. Throughout the US the left has almost completely taken over not only primary & secondary schools, but especially, post-secondary. And, not only instructors but students, as well."
Nope.
I do, and I still contend that isolated incidents cannot be generalized beyond a reasonable horizon. I do NOT like the trend that seems to be taking shape in SOME US universities and schools, but this is NOT to be interpreted into my saying that ALL universities and schools are headed in this direction. I am still a centrist, who is willing to see all sides of a situation and belief, before making a decision as to where I stand on a certain situation.
Paix, mon ami.
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There is no such things as "free" tuition. Somebody is always paying for it. If not corporate & private donors via scholarships, bursaries, etc., then the taxpayer.
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I am in favor of free tuition for qualified students.
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