Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Iranian leader Ahmadinejad calls for secular, liberal professors to leave universities

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 08:07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> For a moment I thought he was talking about American Universities!  It
> would have empied out MU.

Heh, heh, that's funny. Supposedly somewhere around 90% of university 
professors identify as liberals and secular. Maybe it's because I am taking 
engineering classes where politics has really no business being or that our 
professors are more professional than most, but I almost never see politics 
in the classroom. There are exceptions, like my English 20 instructor who 
wore his beliefs on his sleeve (literally) and constantly made his views 
heard (having to write papers about the Iraq War in late 2003 is not pretty 
when he tended to read sections of students' papers aloud and criticize the 
views that didn't agree with his) but that is the rare exception rather than 
the rule, at least for my classes. 

I personally saw that elementary and high schools are much worse as far as 
politics go. Anybody who has had a social studies class where they are 
talking about the election process usually never fails to know exactly where 
the teacher stands, especially if it's during an election cycle. I only know 
a few teachers that have been fairly neutral in their presentation of that 
issue. Heck, at my high school, teachers put on political buttons and put 
posters on their classroom doors (!!) That led to some very ugly 
confrontations among staff members that I remember hearing...

Phillip


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