<p>TurboH, you MUST be kidding. Professors at top tier institutions are not “required”, or even expected, to adhere to any set of beliefs. In fact, diversity of thought, provided it is not racist or represive, is encoured. </p>
<p>Furthermore, students at top tier universities are encouraged to question. That the WHOLE point of an undergraduate education. Without questioning, there can be no learning. We aren’t talking abvout 10-15 year olds, learning the basics. College is about adults developing their thoughts based on an already sound academic foundation presumably acquired in High School. </p>
<p>Case in point, as an undergrad, I took a course in Labor Economics. As part of the course, we touched on the subject of Affirmative Action. The professor teaching that course was one of the founding fathers of Affirmative Action back in the 1960s and is a very strong supporter of it until this day. For my research paper for the course, I chose to write on the negatives of Affirmative Action and why I thought its uses had faded and slipped into obsolescence. The professor loved my paper and gave me an A. I was not surprised with the grade I got mind you. Nor was I affraid of how he would react to my topic of choice or my point of view, even though it went against everything that man believed and fought hard to create and preserve over most of his professional life. That is the entire point of an undergraduate education. Take that away from the equation, and you might as well stay at home and learn from assigned books.</p>