Quote:Ding ding ding!  That's the point.  I've been discussing with boudreaumw about one small part of the syllabus.

 

Here is the thing that gets me though.  I thought that institutions of higher learning were supposed to be about expressing ideas and expressing one's self.  When you try to censor what students can say, you censor their thoughts.  When students are only allowed to use certain language either when they are speaking or in papers that they might write, then you are going into the direction of "indoctrination" rather than "teaching".

You take offense by his syllabus. HIS syllabus. Not yours. Is it over the top? Maybe but that's purely an individuals opinion. Discussing what he/she finds intolerable in class is not really relevant nor productive other than to hammer home the general disdain for higher education. Now if some police or political body does the same thing, then we can have a conversation as that would actually be effecting someone's rights. 

 

 

Yes it's a terrible thing, that "indoctrination" of societal tolerance and the consideration of other people's feelings. What's this world coming too.... /s

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