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Keyser Söze

On 10/16/15 5:04 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/16/2015 4:43 PM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 10/16/15 4:30 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:07:55 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/16/15 2:26 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 13:09:50 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/16/2015 11:47 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:

You need to expand your horizons and stop paying so much
attention to
libertarian nonsense and right-wing media. Perhaps you can audit a
local
university liberal arts course in critical thinking.

There you go again.

Harry seems to think that a degree he got during the Nixon
administration from a college nobody has ever heard of, allows him to
denigrate others.

I got my first college degree during the Johnson Administration and my
second during the Nixon Administration. The concepts of and teaching of
courses in critical thinking haven't changed, and, considering your
earlier post in this thread, you might benefit from those courses.

Anyone who disagrees with you seems to lack that skill it seems.
That is exactly why I wouldn't want a blathering professor, who went
to school at 5 and never left, telling me how I am supposed to think.

You still don't get it. Professors and a curriculum of the proper
courses don't tell you what to think, or what you are supposed to think,
they help you learn how to think. That's the difference you don't get.

I had one who from the first day of class started spewing all sorts of
what is now considered "liberal" rhetoric. His comments weren't
instructive or germane to the course ... they were just off the cuff
remarks. This was just post Vietnam and, although still in my twenties,
I was the oldest student in the class, by far.

One day, after several evenings of listening to his off the cuff
comments, I responded to one, challenging his position. Politely, of
course, but still a challenge to him.

He just turned, looking at me over his eyeglasses and smiled. Didn't
say a word.

My expectations were not that every professor I encountered would be the
"perfect" professor. One of my German professors, an associate
professor, actually, was a younger German national and I suspect an
unreconstructed Nazi, with a novel set of reasons for WW II.