Ed: the first move is to walk away from the course?
Here with the Freedom of Choice crowd, the first move is to run from it but you're right, Tall Daddy; walk or run - whatever you will do - just escape.
Ed: what's with that 'Tall Daddy?'
That came out of listening to The Andrews Sisters and "You Better Fly Right" but I don't have a logical reason for why it did.
Ed: who needs to fly right?
Everyone, man.
Just in case you're calling bullshit for yourself on whether the course really exists, I do have the citation for this one. (RT: ‘Calling bullsh*t’: University course teaches how to identify BS)
What difference should it make if your thinking is inculcated by the state, a university, or some nutjob screaming platitudes from a soapbox in a park.
I know the Right doesn't want any more than the Left for anyone to dictate to them how to think and the comedy part is both sides accuse the other of doing precisely that.
The Rockhouse position hasn't changed on that since you need to think for yourself and question everything no matter who says it. We learned that from Saint George.
Ed: the Dragon slayer?
No, Carlin.
Ed: that wasn't funny!
I know it wasn't funny and comedy wasn't the intention. People are calling bullshit so much online the wipers can't keep the windshield clean so we will likely crash into a cow.
Maybe the first inclination is to dismiss it as stupid and walk away for that reason but this isn't coming from stupid people and they're in a position to influence many. In the sense of academic freedom, there's no room for complaint since the state mustn't impose any controls on academia but that's not really the question.
Why would anyone see value in the course and pay money for it?
Here with the Freedom of Choice crowd, the first move is to run from it but you're right, Tall Daddy; walk or run - whatever you will do - just escape.
Ed: what's with that 'Tall Daddy?'
That came out of listening to The Andrews Sisters and "You Better Fly Right" but I don't have a logical reason for why it did.
Ed: who needs to fly right?
Everyone, man.
Just in case you're calling bullshit for yourself on whether the course really exists, I do have the citation for this one. (RT: ‘Calling bullsh*t’: University course teaches how to identify BS)
What difference should it make if your thinking is inculcated by the state, a university, or some nutjob screaming platitudes from a soapbox in a park.
I know the Right doesn't want any more than the Left for anyone to dictate to them how to think and the comedy part is both sides accuse the other of doing precisely that.
The Rockhouse position hasn't changed on that since you need to think for yourself and question everything no matter who says it. We learned that from Saint George.
Ed: the Dragon slayer?
No, Carlin.
Ed: that wasn't funny!
I know it wasn't funny and comedy wasn't the intention. People are calling bullshit so much online the wipers can't keep the windshield clean so we will likely crash into a cow.
Maybe the first inclination is to dismiss it as stupid and walk away for that reason but this isn't coming from stupid people and they're in a position to influence many. In the sense of academic freedom, there's no room for complaint since the state mustn't impose any controls on academia but that's not really the question.
Why would anyone see value in the course and pay money for it?
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Must be a State funded school.
I don't mean to rain on the point since it's a great rebuttal but UC is a state-funded school and I never saw it go so far over the edge like the current example.
Of course it did. I believe the standard joke was the University College class in basketweaving.
They all have ridiculous classes like this.
I've heard of such courses but I've never actually seen one. The only example I've really got is a Professor Banta who was notorious for saying give yourself whatever grade you think you deserve for his Psychology class. There was more to it than that, tho.
But it was a valid class. Maybe not a valid method
Agreed on both as I never heard he was a trivial professor
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