Student forced to complete assignment to graduate

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Posted by David Roberts at 11:21 AM on 14 May 2007

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This is one of the most torturous cable TV segments I've ever seen:

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liberal elitists

Those liberal academic elitists forced that impressionable young man to watch and believe in that dirty film without offering a different point of view?! That's outrageous!

I bet they also made him study Plato and offered no differing perspective on his philosophies. And they probably also forced him to study Copernicus without offering the alternative perspective of the world being flat instead of round! My God! And French class: I'll bet never allowed him to use alternative pronunciations to French words. In fact, I bet they forced him to pronounce words a certain way!!! When will those liberals in academia stop being so politically incorrect and start teaching every possible perspective on every subject??!!! You call this education?????

by zacaroni at 12:19 PM on 14 May 2007

A convenient crutch...

All this stuff could be avoided if science teachers would get off their arses and just teach the science themselves. What kind of university offers a feature film for a science lecture? Why doesn't the prof just tell them the facts? I seem to remember that in my science courses the teachers had no problem discussing disagreement or controversy about an issue, and putting it into proper context, without recourse to "leftist" or "rightist" arguments. I don't see why there has to be now. Teachers are unnecessarily creating controversy by getting Al Gore to do their work for them.

Givent the controversy, I have no idea why anyone woudn't want to discuss, in detail, the context. It would seem very, very valuable for kids to see the hard facts about the numbers: proponents vs. deniers. And to discuss such things as the possilibility of this being a hoax, hype, or a mass delusion. That would provide the balance that FOX so craves.

by Jones at 12:23 PM on 14 May 2007

wee wee mon-sewer

The suggestion del mio amico Zacaroni is exactly correct. The instructor's responsibility is to expose students to anything available which may in any way, positively or negatively, illustrate a subject taught in that course. Was the instructor saying that a student would receive the grade of "F" for examining evidence with a contrary import? That would indeed be reprehensible. But that is not at all what seems to have taken place.

Pity, about the student's hair. He is kind of cute. Too bad he is going bald so early.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 12:50 PM on 14 May 2007

Holy flippin' WAH!

Isn't it better to "know thine enemy" rather than to remain ignorant about something because the beliefs may not be the same? Shouldn't he want to know more about what others think about global warming so he might be able to refute their beliefs?

I hope he feels better for being a crybaby sissy on national television.

by sm00bs at 1:08 PM on 14 May 2007

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