There is no Right or Wrong in College Anymore
Tom Abbott
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28173
College profs steeped in post-modernism
73% of polled seniors say instructors don't teach standard
of right, wrong
Posted: July 5, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Mandi Steele
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Graduating college seniors say professors in the U.S.
consistently teach a post-modern philosophy that there are
no uniform standards of right and wrong, according to poll
results released by the National Association of Scholars.
A majority of seniors – 73 percent – chose the statement
"what is right and wrong depends on differences in
individual values and cultural diversity" as the message
college and university professors most often transmit.
Stephen Balch, president of NAS, says he was surprised by
the number of students who were receiving such a message
from their teachers.
"We've long had an interest in how cultural trends affect
higher education and how higher education, because of them,
affects the rest of society," he said. "One of the things
that interested and bothered us as an organization is the
influence of post-modern thought."
Post-modern thought, Balch says, is the belief that people
can have whatever ethics they like, an "anything goes"
attitude. The poll, conducted by Zogby International and
released on Tuesday, surveyed 401 college and university
seniors across the nation. Balch says it showed how
"predominant" post-modern thought is among higher-education
professors.
"There's deep debates going on in our culture about whether
right and wrong has any type of objective standard," Balch
told WorldNetDaily.
The professors pass on their personal philosophy of
"anything goes" to their students, and to fix the problem
you have to go back and change the way professors are being
educated, he says.
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Yes, the professors are the problem, and they are the ones
that need to be changed or changed out. The communists
always said the first institution they needed to attack to
conquer the United States was the U.S. education system, and
it seems like they have accomplished this task, with lots of
help from the Vietnam war cowards, who also have a vested
interest in demonizing U.S. government and society.
TA
Jack Flash
want, but you either learn and use the course material as taught, or you got
a shitty grade. End of story.
"Tom Abbott" <tab...@intellex.com> wrote in message
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> Found at:
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> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28173
>
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> College profs steeped in post-modernism
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> 73% of polled seniors say instructors don't teach standard
> of right, wrong
>
> Posted: July 5, 2002
> 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
>
> By Mandi Steele
> © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
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> Graduating college seniors say professors in the U.S.
> consistently teach a post-modern philosophy that there are
> no uniform standards of right and wrong, according to poll
> results released by the National Association of Scholars.
>
> A majority of seniors - 73 percent - chose the statement
Captain Compassion
wrote:
My son who's an A student im mathematics and a senior at UCR just
finished a class on the History of Philisophy. He Failed the class. He
said that everyone there, including the professor, were profoundly
confused. He did take it pass/fail. My son also reports no such
problems in the mathematics department.
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"By the Atheist I understand the man who not only holds off,
like the sceptic, from the affirmative, but who drives himself,
or is driven, to the negative assertion in regard to the whole
unseen, or to the existence of God." - Gladstone
(Contemporary Review, June 1876)
"If you can't eat their food, drink their liquor, fuck their
whores and take their money and STILL vote AGAINST them, you
don't belong in this business." -- Jess Unruh.
"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us,
'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'" -- Dosteovsky
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D.G. Porter
Captain Compassion wrote:
>
> My son who's an A student im mathematics and a senior at UCR just
> finished a class on the History of Philisophy. He Failed the class. He
> said that everyone there, including the professor, were profoundly
> confused. He did take it pass/fail. My son also reports no such
> problems in the mathematics department.
Please elaborate.
I myself never took a philosophy course, but when I was a student I had
as a good friend a student at UCLA who was taking a lot of philosophy.
We'd have lunch and he'd talk about Kant and Sartre, but I don't
remember much in psecifics anymore.
I'm reminded of that story John Cage related, "Before studying Zen, men
are men and mountains are mountains. While studying Zen, things become
confused. After studying Zen, men are men and mountains are mountains."
"What is the difference?" "No difference, except the feet are a few
inches off the ground."
Jack Flash
math in many ways) or history classes with a lot of independent reading of
philosophers.
I don't know how you'd fail in either case, especially not a math major.
Sounds like he either got sideways with the Prof or the Prof just didn't
hear the words he wanted.
"D.G. Porter" <dgpo...@NOSPAMMERSpacbell.naught> wrote in message
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Keynes
That's a quote of D.T.Suzuki.
He wrote extensively about zen,
and much has been translated into english.
It got me started. Alan Watts is pretty good too.
Keynes
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