Tag Archive 'Professors'

Unsafe at any grade

Bookworm on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Education

If you suspected that many professors at America’s top universities view their students at passive receptacles for the professor’s propagandizing, you thought rightly. When students at Dartmouth broke this unspoken compact, one that is antithetical to the traditional idea of a university as a place where students learn logical, analysis, and the ability to [...]

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Why am I not surprised?

Bookworm on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: Bush Derangement Syndrome, Education

Yesterday, Drudge had a headline that said something along the lines of:  “98% of historians judge Bush’s presidency a failure.”  I didn’t bother to check out the article.  It didn’t matter to me whether someone polled 10 historians or 1000.  I still knew with pretty good certainty a few underlying facts:  if they’re historians for [...]

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