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They forgot to teach and advise

Survey: Many MIT Faculty Fear Speaking Freely While Students Support Barring Speakers with Opposing Views:

The MIT survey shows that we are raising the most speech-intolerant generation in our history with students taught for years that speech is harmful and must be controlled, censored, or confined. It is not enough to protest, it is a license to silence speakers and to prevent access to events or lectures. It is the face of the new American orthodoxy that has taken hold of our institutions of high education.

The most depressing thing in the last few years is seeing and hearing academic friends see student intolerance and wonder out loud whether “the young might be right.” They forgot what wisdom was. They just just go home, they’re not teachers, they’ve taken the “flipped classroom” model too far.

2 thoughts on “They forgot to teach and advise

  1. Those schools are getting exactly the students they want. Of my children’s classmates, it was the ones who were most stridently progressive who were admitted to the Ivies and the MIT-adjacent schools. Well, there were a couple of rowers and lacrosse players as well.

  2. The Approaching Disintegration of Academia
    Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth.
    Mark Goldblatt
    7 Feb 2023
    https://quillette.com/2023/02/07/the-approaching-disintegration-of-academia/

    “The claim that Queer Theory has “deconstructed objectivity” means only that a certain number of academic performance artists have doodled with a cluster of words related to the concept of objectivity in order to gain university employment, win friends, and influence a distressingly large number of gullible fans. But no epistemological breakthrough has come of their efforts: if it had, it would be self-refuting since it would consist of an objective truth about the impossibility of objectivity. (At a lecture I attended 40 years ago, a debonair British postmodernist stated that Derrida had shown us how it was possible to formulate a consistent argument with a contradiction in it. When I inquired how, in that case, we could recognize an inconsistent argument, the question was met with actual hisses from his acolytes. I’m still waiting for an answer.)”

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