The college teacher who went on an anti-Republican tirade in class and even threatened a student who disagreed has been suspended for the rest of the semester.
The college teacher who went on an anti-Republican tirade in class and even threatened a student who disagreed has been suspended for the rest of the semester.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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The college teacher who went on an anti-Republican tirade in class and even threatened a student who disagreed has been suspended for the rest of the semester.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Doesn’t say whether or not he still gets paid.
Creative Writing is one of those fields so far removed from politics that the subject should never arise unless in the context of something a student has submitted for peer review or to illustrate the pitfalls of political evangelism in literature.
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Reprehensible and ridiculous as I find the teacher’s remarks, I do not support the suspension. Our colleges and universities should be well-defended bastions of free speech and the free exchange of ideas. A more appropriate response might have been a mass walkout by his students, or at least a spontaneous verbal protest. In a related instance, this teacher reportedly scolded a female student that she had better stop frowning at his remarks, lest she receive a poor grade. If true, the student should have stood up and asked him for whom he was working and who was paying his salary.
The arrogance and ignorance of academy have grown so profound that serious pushback is required. I recently heard a caller to a local talk radio show that he opened his college biology textbook and found on the first page a tirade against global warming skeptics. Another isolated incident, but an indication that education in many institutions has been replaced by indoctrination.
It is time for parents to consider, seriously, whether paying outrageous fees to colleges and universities, and hence to support the bloated salaries of individuals such as the man mentioned above, is worth it. Colman McCarthy, the former Washington Post columnist, once said he would like to see students required to pay for their individual classes in cash, so they would be instilled with a sense of how much money they were being charged and how much value they were receiving in return.
I would take that suggestion further. I would dare academia to allow students to pay for each of their classes, in cash, at the end of each session — Pay as You Exit. I cannot think of a more effective strategy to promote hard and honest work by college instructors that is also compatible with free speech ideals.
Is there an academic institution in this country that is confident enough in the value of its education to accept such a challenge?