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eugene_vn · 11-13-2008, 01:00 PM

Hi Gregor,

I'm glad to learn that you are also seeing positive signs of enlightenment in your university system. At the university where I teach (in history), I have also noticed more and more faculty who are up to speed (to varying degrees) with what is going on and they are gradually losing their inhibitions about discussing it.

Oddly enough, this academic year I have found my academc colleagues more open-minded than my students with regard to progressive ideas. I don't fault the students; they seem to still be weighed down by years of brainwashing in the primary and secondary school system. I suspect that in a weird way, money is also an issue: They internally realize that the world is very different from the way it is explained in textbooks, but emotionally many of them have difficulty accepting that their tuition is in some sense a waste if it is only for textbook knowledge! Luckily I think the whole community - students, teachers, textbook writers, et al. - are slowly coming around together.

11-13-2008, 01:00 PM	#23
eugene_vn Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 31	Re: The Acceleration Hi Gregor, I'm glad to learn that you are also seeing positive signs of enlightenment in your university system. At the university where I teach (in history), I have also noticed more and more faculty who are up to speed (to varying degrees) with what is going on and they are gradually losing their inhibitions about discussing it. Oddly enough, this academic year I have found my academc colleagues more open-minded than my students with regard to progressive ideas. I don't fault the students; they seem to still be weighed down by years of brainwashing in the primary and secondary school system. I suspect that in a weird way, money is also an issue: They internally realize that the world is very different from the way it is explained in textbooks, but emotionally many of them have difficulty accepting that their tuition is in some sense a waste if it is only for textbook knowledge! Luckily I think the whole community - students, teachers, textbook writers, et al. - are slowly coming around together.