"DSK" wrote in message
...
Jeff Rigby wrote:
At USF the smart people were on the HARD science side of the campus and
the Liberal arts side of the campus had the most muddle headed people.

And that's true on both sides of the fence.


... For instance, my English literature professor was preaching communism
in class. In her class, those of us from the Hard science side of the
campus were telling her that communism wouldn't work as it went against
too many imperatives built into human beings to be a workable system.

Did you ever stop to think that you were the student, and the teacher was
the teacher? I see you began your career of big mouth & closed mind early
on.

Actually I was kinda timid at that time and only offered a couple of
examples. We were very polite to the ENGLISH teacher only trying to correct
her thinking when she drifted off her JOB and into her pet philosiphies.
Most of us were afraid of being given a lower grade if we disagreed with
her too strenuously.


It always irked me that there were different math and science courses
offered for hard science students and liberal arts students. They are
called the same but the liberal arts version is MUCH easier.

In all the college catalogs I am aware of, they are *not* given the same
designation. In fact, if the material is different then they must be named
& designated differently.

Nope the name was the same but there was, If I remember correctly, a letter
difference in the designation. Like calculus 101 and 101E and Chemistry 101
and 101E.

... Same number of credit hour too but we would get zero credits for
those courses for our majors. I always found that courses offered on the
liberal arts side of the campus were very easy.


In some cases yes. OTOH I remember a fellow engineer who was furious with
an economics professor for giving him a GPA busting grade. The student had
a childish tantrum in front of the class, yelling (among other things)
that this was an easy class. However, this guy was in my study group and
he just plain didn't know the material... which might not have been
extremely difficult (300 level micro econ), but it certainly wasn't See
Spot Run.

You can't bull**** a computer, machine or building and have it work.

Yep, that's why it's really stupid & short sighted to continue to apply
political and religious litmus tests to political, military, & economic
problems.

That's true for both sides, but I tend to hear more of that type of behavior
from the left.
We know that the world is not a simple place with simple solutions.
Polititions on both sides try to polerize issues into simple (for the
public) to understand "sound bites". The problem is that the liberal
academics are teaching young people based on those sound bites.

The Issue with the English teacher and communisum is a perfect example. She
believed in the "perfect solution" offered by communisum, that all would be
fed and none would lack. The problem is in the implementation, they never
look at the big picture.

... But you can bull**** people especially if they are young or believe
the same bull****.

Which is why the Bush Administration has been able to hang on to it's
power & influence. It may finally be on the wane as people are figuring
out the hypocrisy & greed, but maybe not.

DSK

It is on it's way out. But only because it's hard and expensive being the
good guy. We will back out after the new guy is elected and force others to
shoulder their fair share and they will weasel out of it after giving lip
service and in a decade we will be back to square one again.