Posted by
Daniel Crandall on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:39:34 AM
Go to any college or university and you will be told that it is not the instructors job to teach students
what to think. Rather the task is instruct the young on
how to think. In a
brief review of "Married Life", Barbara Nicolosi, an instructor at Azusa Pacific University,
Origin Entertainment, Act One, the Los Angeles Film Study Center, and various other locals, gives us her experience with "thinking" Gen Xers:
"... after I have gone through the three elements of the beautiful from St.
Thomas - wholeness, harmony and radiance - one of the undergrads will
prop a limp elbow into the air - what is it with this generation that
even asking a question in class has to be a statement on how ambivalent
they are about even being there? - and then he or she will issue forth,
"I don't agree."
And then I respond, pretending all the while
that this is the first time I've heard the astonishingness, "You don't
agree that there are elements to the beautiful? Okay, cool. Give me an
argument."
"Well, I think, you know, that any body can just decide what, you know, they like."
"That's not an argument."
"I don't need to give you an argument. It's what I think. I have a right to my opinion."
Barbara clarifies that this isn't thinking, this is "resentment and petulance and the need to assert one's existence. But it ain't thinking." Furthremore, "every time you disagree with them, you suddenly find yourselves in a battle with their emotional survival."
The Baby Boomer Left has taken over education at all levels. This is the sour fruit of their pedagogy: Feelings and emotional survival trump thinking, argument and reasoned debate.