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I'm glad I went to the school of hard knocks rather than any liberal hotbed university.
Oh yeah, how's that working out for ya? What do you do for a living, and do you earn a good salary? Just curious, since my "liberal hotbed university" education is working out great for me!
Right, because it takes a deep thinker to come up with "*******." Seems you didn't get much past 3rd grade, at least judging by this display of brilliant maturity.
You are certainly correct. I used to be a Professor at Columbia before embarking on a different adventure and exclusively taught M.A. and Ph.D students. From various discussions I had over the years, I can not say that students seemed particularly skewed to the left. Rather, there was also a very large segment of rather conservative students to be found.
My only association with leftist viewpoints would probably draw upon the 1960's and I am certain that this association is still very much alive in the public's perception. Alas, that was quite long ago and does not really bear much weight on Columbia's curricula these days. Sure, there are professors who clearly sit on the left on the aisle, but there are certainly just as many who feel more at home on the right. Unless a class tackles public policy or philosophy, personal political leanings generally stay out of the class room. I know that I paid utmost attention to avoid proselytizing my personal perspectives.
That said, if you are on the extreme right, just about everybody seems "left" to you. So, no surprise that some C-D members feel like Columbia (or higher education) is dominated by liberal/progressive thought.
Have you failed to read anything Obama has written about his days at Columbia. I would say you missed all that.
Maybe he didn't really write any of that. Bill might have written it.
I wonder what type of curriculum they teach at NEOCONSERVATIVE colleges? Tax evasion? How to start wars and not finish them? How to chase french skirts? Doomsday preparedness? Chop off a gay boy's hair?
I don't think it was that complicated. I think the message was simply to abandon all preconceptions ye who enter here. Quantum states are unlike anything we experience at the macro level, and so it will not help to try and make sense of them in any ordinary way. Trying to actually make specific sense of what the professor did is actually missing the general point.
I suspect the OP would be the first one dropping the class. Asking him to abandon all preconceptions and think independently would be impossible.
It seems that this professor at a Columbia University class came into the theater and undressed down to his boxer shorts and then put on black clothes including shades. Then two people dressed as ninjas came in and put stuffed lambs on two stools, tied blindfolds on them and then stuck a long ninja sword through one of them and beat the poor thing on his stool till he flew off the sword. Then some scenes were played on a huge screen behind it all. The kind of things that libs would like to see like scenes of warfare, the 9/11 explosions, Hitler, Mussolini, and others like bin Laden. See it all on this link and maybe someone can explain what is going on. I just don't know enough left lean to figure it out. Yeah, left. Obama did go to schools there, didn't he?
Are you expecting me to explain or defend this behavior? Because I won't.
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