It is helpful to have to defend your ideas and to get exposed to other points of view, but this is a two-way street. Teachers and students also need to be ready to learn from those with minority perspectives. There are whole other worlds of ideas that are beyond our knowledge and experience.
It is helpful to have to defend your ideas and to get exposed to other points of view, but this is a two-way street. Teachers and students also need to be ready to learn from those with minority perspectives. There are whole other worlds of ideas that are beyond our knowledge and experience.
Yep. And professors shouldn't make their students do all the work. They need to teach those perspectives by presenting the best arguments in good faith. They are both unwilling and, I strongly believe, not competent to do so.
I've worked as a instructor at a university for about 15 years. Most of my students are significantly more conservative than me, but they seem to find my point of view interesting and exciting. I approach instruction with a joy in learning, knowledge, and ideas. My students perspectives are deeply interesting to me. Any opinion in class can be challenged, including my own. Ideological instructors don't teach students to think or develop as individuals and have no place at a university. Ideological environments present challenges to professors many of whom hold views that are different from far left orthodoxies.
It is helpful to have to defend your ideas and to get exposed to other points of view, but this is a two-way street. Teachers and students also need to be ready to learn from those with minority perspectives. There are whole other worlds of ideas that are beyond our knowledge and experience.
Yep. And professors shouldn't make their students do all the work. They need to teach those perspectives by presenting the best arguments in good faith. They are both unwilling and, I strongly believe, not competent to do so.
I've worked as a instructor at a university for about 15 years. Most of my students are significantly more conservative than me, but they seem to find my point of view interesting and exciting. I approach instruction with a joy in learning, knowledge, and ideas. My students perspectives are deeply interesting to me. Any opinion in class can be challenged, including my own. Ideological instructors don't teach students to think or develop as individuals and have no place at a university. Ideological environments present challenges to professors many of whom hold views that are different from far left orthodoxies.