<p>I dont know about any of you, or your own college experiences. But I can tell you that in the spectrum of my own college career, in only one year of college, im already facing professors saying stupid things like "Bush is a dumbass". Personally I'm a moderate conservative. I hate it when a professor pushes her own ideologies on me and tells me shes right and im wrong. Just today my summer sociology teacher told us Kennedy's assasination was a conspiracy by our government. I said "Really? I just have a really hard time believing that" i said it in a nonthreatening question way. Her response, "If you dont question anything you might as well die. Another soul lost, good riddance. You might as well drop off a bridge". She fried me. Before that she was talking about how our government is disgusting and horrible, the media lies to us, how our government wants us to use drugs. Yes im not completely shut out of society. i know that government is corrupt. But seriously, ENOUGH! This is for all those students, moderate and conservatives alike who have had this kind of nasty experience. These people control our grades, i have no idea how to handle this issue.</p>
<p>It sounds like you just have a crazy professor. Teaching in higher education typically attracts a certain type of person, and more often than not that person is liberal. I’d imagine the professors in business, math, and science classes would be a lot more conservative than those in the liberal arts.</p>
<p>Most professors in academia are liberal in all fields. The professor that was talking about the government consipiracy doesn’t sound liberal at all; he sounds like a right-wing extremist. Usually liberals trust the government and trust the media. In fact, if you believe all liberals are nutjobs, you are going to have a hard time going through college and beyond because the higher you go in academia, the more liberals you will encounter.</p>
<p>That’s why I like engineering. Occasionally somebody goes off on an environmental rant but stuff breaks when it breaks, regardless of bias.</p>
<p>^ That made no sense.</p>
<p>What doesn’t about it? There usually isn’t much of a liberal or conservative spin you can put on an engineering class.</p>
<p>What do you mean “when stuff breaks it breaks”?</p>
<p>@ flipper - what Chuy meant is that grading in Math/Sci classes is less subjective. The chemical equation is either balanced or inbalanced. The math problem is right or wrong (please don’t give me a lecture on higher level theoretical math blahblah :)). The computer either works or doesn’t. In a Political science class, if a Prof is reading a paper and his political viewpoints are the opposite of the student, he’ll find fault with the arguments made, disagree with the logic behind the argument, etc. In one of my classes, I noticed my papers getting better grades once I started making political arguments that favored Hilary Clinton (I don’t like Clinton. My Prof campaigned for her.) I would hate to have a professor who shoves her personal point of view in my face constantly. Luckily, most profs try to be openminded but then there’s people like this.</p>
<p>Oh yeah I totally agree that math/science/engineering is usually free of bias (except maybe with Darwinism vs. Intelligent Design). I just didn’t understand what “when stuff breaks it breaks” means.</p>
<p>DavidB, I suspect things will get better as you progress further into your accounting major, and away from required intro courses … though there’s probably a nut somewhere who attempts to politicize accounting!</p>
<p>I majored in mathematics and always appreciated the universal truth to it all.</p>
<p>Today at Barnes and Noble I saw a book about this exact same topic. If you use the strict interpretation of the word “liberal,” then it is absolutely necessary for those in academia to be liberal. However, your professor doesn’t sound very liberal to me. Liberal means generous, open-minded. Perhaps s/he has left-leaning politics and views, but keep in mind that the political spectrum is not a line but a circle, where both right and left can meet in the middle of ****ing crazy.</p>
<p>I think Bush was the best President ever. My parents weren’t as rich during the Clinton years, but thanks to Bush, we’re a lot richer now. </p>
<p>That’s all I got to say on this. Bush was a good President.</p>
<p>That’s funny, because when Clinton was in office my family was on the up and up, and now–after Bush, we are basically in the same place but a bit poorer.</p>
<p>I’m sick and tired of liberals in general. </p>
<p>But no, Bush was not a very good president. Better than Obama? He.ll yes, but not good by any means. Reagan is by far the best post-WWII president we have had, not even close.</p>
<p>I’m sick of people who don’t agree with me, too.</p>
<p>AbbyP was the book called “One-Party Classroom” by David Horowitz? Just picked it up from the library…looks to be a depressing read. I suggest students look to Ratemyprofessor. com to steer themselves around profs who blatantly try to cram their opinions down students throats.</p>
<p>In my life, I have noticed a direct correlation of how intelligent someone is, and their political beliefs. My observation is that the smarter one becomes, the more liberal they are.</p>
<p>Yes I am indirectly saying that most conservatives aren’t as smart.</p>
<p>I don’t mind listening to a professor talk about their beliefs or ideas, sometimes it’s interesting to hear how other people view things. The only thing I dislike is when you’re graded based on their beliefs. I’ve had a few professors who would grade based on whether you agree with them.</p>
<p>“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans — unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.”</p>
<p>—Karl Rove, senior advisor and chief political strategist for George W Bush, quoted in The Daily Texan, 19 March 2004</p>
<p>The more degrees an American has (after a four-year college degree,) the more likely they are to be left-leaning (not that I’m a huge fan of Rove, I just liked the quote).</p>
<p>@TrumpetDad
I’m a mathematics minor myself and while I enjoy it for what it is, I’m not sure what you mean by “universal truth.” I would describe the field as objective, yes, but far from “truth.”</p>
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<p>I doubt you’re capable of giving an answer other than “Obama wants to steal my money!”, but I’d love to hear why Bush was such a better president than Obama. (This is directed at MinnesotaTwins)</p>
<p>And in regards to the first post, absolutely nothing mentioned points to someone being liberal, aside from the fact that most professors are liberal. My own father thinks Bush was the worst president of his life, and I don’t think you could pay him enough to vote for a Democrat. </p>
<p>People in life will have opinions different to yours. Your own boss one day might be the biggest liberal you’ve ever met. You deal with it, and if a remark is made you don’t agree with, brush it off. Surrounding yourself with nothing but like-minded people is how you end up with extremists, who are a skidmark on the underwear of America.</p>