Middle Ages?
Posted in Tuma's Toons by R Lee Wrights on February 18th, 2005 Archive for February, 2005
Posted in Tuma's Toons by R Lee Wrights on February 18th, 2005 
Curing Political Correctness - How Choice Builds Strong Minds
Posted in Doing Something by R Lee Wrights on February 11th, 2005 by Don Meinshausen
Nat Hentoff, a leading civil liberties columnist for the liberal Village Voice, writes disapprovingly about the latest intimidations at Columbia University. He wrote about a pro-Palestinian lecturer that is so vociferous in his denunciation of Zionism and Israel that many students are afraid to question him.
Strong opinions of teachers and institutions can be intimidating even when it is not intended. It can happen anywhere just one point of view is presented. How a student deals with such teachers can be crucial to grades and eventually scholarships, teaching positions and the holy grail of tenure. And when that has been achieved the student gets his vengeance by playing the same game on his students. The alternative is an approach that all ideas are the same, which becomes boring and confusing when ideas lack fire.
