The other bites the dust.
Teacher, that’s it.
There is no doubt that this makes many tenured university professors feel uneasy-those who fit this description will see the entire concept of American education change.
For many people, the situation may not be good.
It is estimated that many students can’t figure out the old arrangements.
In the past, public education was a very boring disseminator of objective facts.
In addition, it is a training ground for the mind.
Subjects are generally English, literature, math, science, Government and philosophy.
There is no condom in junior high school and no status in elementary school.
Nebraska focuses on teaching kindergarten children’s gender identity while 11-year-olds learn about pansexuality and de-sexism https://t.co/G4oPAuDZlF
— Red State (@RedState) March 24, 2021
No sociopolitical views Give directions to children.
No matter what point of view the student holds, it comes from within, from the family or from the community.
At the same time, the lines are blurry.
At the university level, politics seems to lean towards one way.
Related cases:
The University’s “21-Day Anti-Racism Challenge” allows students to understand “how whites are made”
State University seeks professors of “Structural Racism, Oppression, and Black Political Experience”
For Peter Boghossian, this change is not commendable.
Therefore, the professor parted ways with Portland State University.
For the past ten years, he has been a lecturer in philosophy.
But through the resignation announcement-issued by Bari Weiss substack “common sense“——He gave a reason for withdrawing.
In an open letter on Wednesday, Professor Peter lamented the decline of thought-provoking pedagogy:
“Students at Portland State University are not taught to think. Instead, they are trained to imitate the moral certainty of theorists.”
This is a question of academic abandonment:
“[B]Brick by brick, this university makes…intellectual exploration impossible. …The faculty, staff and management have abandoned the university’s mission of seeking truth, and instead promoted intolerance of different beliefs and opinions. This creates a culture of offense, and students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly. “
Contrary to teaching:
“I never believe—and I do not believe—the purpose of teaching is to guide my students to a specific conclusion. On the contrary, I try to create conditions for rigorous thinking; to help them obtain tools to find and dig their own conclusions. . This is why I became a teacher and I love teaching.”
It has been going on for a long time:
“During my time at Portland State University, I noticed early signs of unliberalism that is now completely engulfing the college. I have witnessed students rejecting different perspectives. Faculty and staff from diversity training questioned what was approved The narrated issues were immediately dismissed. Those who demanded evidence that the new system’s policies were reasonable were charged. Micro-attackThe professors are accused of being paranoid because the distribution happens to be a normative text written by European and male philosophers. “
He tried to advocate, but “the more [he] Tell these issues, the more you retaliate [he] face. “
He even came up with a plan to highlight the absurdity.
It didn’t work:
“[I]In 2017, I co-published a deliberately garbled peer-reviewed paper aimed at new orthodoxy. Its title is: “Conceptual Penis as a Social Construction”. This example of a pseudo-scholarship published in Cogent Social Sciences believes that the penis is a product of human thinking and is responsible for climate change. Immediately afterwards, I exposed this article as a scam aimed at revealing the flaws in the peer review and academic publishing systems.
Shortly thereafter, in two bathrooms near the Department of Philosophy, the swastika with my name began to appear in the bathroom. They also occasionally appeared at the door of my office, and once accompanied by bags of feces. Our university remains silent. When it took action, it was directed at me, not the perpetrator. “
Peter named his letter “My university sacrificed ideas for ideology.So I resigned today. “
Will many people follow suit?
If I had to guess, I would say to go forward, most teachers will be divided into two camps: give up and acquiesce.
But maybe I was wrong.
Anyway, listening to Peter, the situation is very serious:
“It has turned the bastion of free investigation into a social justice factory, whose only input is race, gender and victims, and its only output is dissatisfaction and division.”
Indeed, this is a different view of education.
-Alex
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