Go_Newt_Gingrich

I have a very interesting high school teacher, who has lived an ecletic life. He also teaches a class or two at a local university.

One of the subject matters he loves to talk about is how much distate he has for higher academia and the current state of colleges.

He views affirmative action as an extension of the anti-semitic conspiracy that prevented him from going to a 1st-tier college back in the 1960s. He sees rampant improper and unethical research methods, which are evidenced by a plethora of bogus studies and plagarism on the part of professors. He once ruined one of his professor's careers, when he exposed that the professor's new book consisted nearly entirely of copies of his student's reports, and he talks on end about how so many common conceptions based upon college studies really have no sound basis. He also talks about how many college professors don't know how to teach and are also just more concerned with the research.

I agree with him from what I've been able to read and gather.

This is one of my favorite quotes from him paraphrased:

"The reason why they started having geographic quotas was to limit the amount of students from New York, because most of them were Jewish. They also looked at the names! Naturally Kristofferson went to Columbia."

At the same time, though, despite how much I love to listen to his attacks on higher academia and attack it on my own, it still sounds like college will be a fun time for whatever it is.

Sligh_Anarchist

Something tells me that your teacher is one of those anti-intellectual Republicans...

kwu

By "higher academia," you're referring solely to the Ivy League, right?

fromthesouth

tulane welcomes tons of students from new york

jews usually have money (at least the ones from rich areas like that) ..they need more diversity

he is stupid

Duper

Sounds like he doesn't take rejection well.

reapthenightmare

Sounds ike a good source for teacher recomendations

Go_Newt_Gingrich

"Something tells me that your teacher is one of those anti-intellectual Republicans... "

He's an extremely intellectual Democrat. He believes colleges do not meet his intellectual standard for research ability. He was smart enough to ruin one of his professor's careers! He's a genius. He's got a PH.D. and has held a ton of prestegious positions.

Also, most of what he's said just really applies to the Northeast/Ivy League in terms of anti-Jewish quotas, but he's right, though. It has been documented that there was a conspiracy among the Ivy Leagues to limit Jews, and affirmative action is racist because it denies the innate equality of human beings.

phuriku

Your professor is quite correct. The fact is rather obvious, but people don't like to confront it because it contradicts their pre-established notions that Ivies have their traditions ingrained in nobility, not corruption.

The school I currently attend (the University of Chicago) brags that it was at one time the only top institution in the nation to refrain from putting quotas on Jews. However, at the same time, it is currently limiting the number of entering Asians simply because they are an over-represented minority. It's utter hypocrisy.

Mr Payne

It's racist to say that human beings are different? I guess the Olympics must be pretty racist be showcasing the *unequal* athletic abilities.

a milli

yeah when I didn't get into Stanford I blamed it on a vast conspiracy too

I guess he must be able to do a lot of quantitative, scholarly research on how college courses are taught today. As a high school teacher.

YOU

is there anything which there is completely no racism or corruption?

Nick017

the world is racist and corrupt. Looks like your teacher grew up in a happy bubble and couldnt take the real world.

Bennie

Sounds like a good place for a "genius PHD holder who has held a ton of prestigious positions" to be challenged--teaching high school.