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Re: Pedagogical Question
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Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 4 Sep 1999 02:48:45 -0400
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Thanks, Robert.  Who'd ever have imagined that the university,
of all places, would have become an environment hostile to free
intellectual inquiry?
 
==Dan
 
At 10:14 PM 9/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I spent 7 years studying at the University of Minnesota, and many of the
grad students and professors quite literally lived and worked as gangs.
Professors had followings, and if you happened to take a class while at the
same time not adhereing to the dominant ideology--by asking an innocent
question from outside of the accepted ideological frame--you were quite
literally shunned. If you quite innocently happened to say the right thing,
you were embraced.
>
>>>> Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]> 09/02 9:57 PM >>>
>In answer to the point you make below, Antje, any ideology--whether
>you call it Political Correctness or whatever--that is imposed on
>anyone is dangerous, no matter how sweet-smelling.  The old joke is
>that of the communist who says, "Comes the revolution, everybody will
>eat peaches and cream."  Then somebody answers, meekly, and says, "but
>I don't LIKE peaches and cream."  Then our communist answers, "You WILL
>eat peaches and cream!"
>
>==DP
>-------------------------------------
>But if we talk about ideology there is actually one thing about American
>Universities/society that I don't understand at all (even at the risk of
>stirring up a hornet's nest): political correctness and that all these
>presumably liberal intellectuals don't see that this is merely ideology at
>it's best.
>
>Antje Pfannkuchen
>
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HOME:
Dan Pearlman
102 Blackstone Blvd. #5
Providence, RI 02906
Tel.: 401 453-3027
email: [log in to unmask]
Fax: (253) 681-8518
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
 
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Department of English
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
Tel.: 401 874-4659

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