tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539359.post7860418650692080829..comments2023-10-24T10:06:05.391-05:00Comments on Instructivist: "Social justice" assaultInstructivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01652458042291988959noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539359.post-42156740231123883342007-09-29T19:25:00.000-05:002007-09-29T19:25:00.000-05:00I've written extensively about so-called social ju...I've written extensively about so-called social justice on my own blog. Please feel free to visit and click on the "social justice" label in the left column. My "Math For Social Justice" posts are among my best.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15730642770935985796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9539359.post-52278231108035800082007-05-19T12:23:00.000-05:002007-05-19T12:23:00.000-05:00While it's true that there are lots of moonbats on...While it's true that there are lots of moonbats on university campuses and that they control the administrations, and while I object as much as anyone to speech codes and groups being allowed to shut down speakers and all that, the nuttiness on campuses is overstated. A student can mostly avoid crazy Stalin apologists if he knows what departments to avoid, has a good BS meter when he's deciding what courses to take ("X Studies," for example, is always going to be some crazy left-wing course, usually taught by some aging hippie in birkenstocks and a long flowered skirt), and talking to other students or going to local or web forums to find out which professors to avoid. At the university, you have the luxury of choice. If you don't want to be hit over the head with leftist nonsense, you don't take lots of left-wing courses from left-wing faculty.<BR/><BR/>This is precisely the reason I'm much more concerned about the growing analog in the public schools. Students don't have the luxury of choice. And while few university faculty would openly state that their pedagogical goal is to teach students what to think, that seems to be the dominant view in ed schools, which percolates down to the schools.rightwingprofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419372059353408855noreply@blogger.com