I got black-balled (oops, restricted in my career of choice) for presenting a paper on the importance of teaching the Western canon in literature classes, and specifically Anglo-American canonical works in Anglo-American literature classes. It was particularly spicy as I was 7 months pregnant at the time. For such "progressive and inclusionary" people, my "colleagues" made some rather rude remarks that had nothing to do with the topic presented...go figure.
That’s because your colleagues were toxic Prog Leftists that had professors that made them hate themselves. Don’t ever challenge the worldview of people incapable of admitting that their worldview was developed from hippies taking so many hits of LSD it fried their ability to effectively reason within reality, smoking so much weed they moved through life dazed and confused, and had so much promiscuous sex that they probably contracted syphilis and became looney. I’m being a bit tongue-in-cheek with my hyperbole, but I did run across Prog Lefty professors that talked about their old professors like that glowingly.
I was fortunate to have either Conservative professors or Moderates that generally did not inject their politics into lectures and forced us to come to our own conclusions. That’s how I taught. I taught facts and objective truth in my U.S. History courses. It’s a shame your embrace of American contribution to Western Civilization was scoffed at by ivory tower douchebags that probably saw your efforts of reproduction as a threat to their ideas against the Patriarchy, heteronormativity, and Feminism. I, for one, would have high-fived you and told you to ignore the gaggle of insecure harpies and male “White” knights.
Funny you should mention the "sex, drugs, and rock n roll" (and booze)....every last one of them was indulging mightily, usually with each others' spouses, fiances, and lovers, and undergrads lots of undergrads; we (instructors and profs, some grad assistants who were not part of the "cool kid crowd") used to joke that the college was one big incestual orgy. I have seen a lot of the "frustrated Jim Morrison" in academia (I haven't figured out who the wymen and zisxirs are: frustrated Madonnas and Boy Georges???...but the desire to be "fierce" seems to be a thing for them).
That’s because Cultural Marxists are fucking degenerates, pun intended. I never wanted to be a part of a group of people that disgusted me on a cellular level, and I’m a Ben Franklin Radical Moderate that leaned Conservative that liked to party responsibly. After attending college and teaching college, I’ve developed a healthy hatred of the degenerate and demonic Prog Lefties. Never trust a word that comes out of their mouths. Beneath their feigned compassionate veneer, they are empty, hollow, childless husks of humanity sold an empty bill of goods about hierarchies and proletariat nonsense.
I made the move to public education (not to teach though), and I’m not sure what is worse, the indoctrination of children K-12 or the indoctrination of adults that are mental children in college? Since high schools don’t teach Logic, Hermeneutics, or Debate & Rhetoric anymore, the college students are atrocious. I have no desire to teach college aged children anymore. I just plan to teach my own.
Well, I'm going to continue (if I can) because I like to teach, and the public school system here is pretty good, so I don't mind working there either (I'll probably wind up there, as the local universities are going nuts but the public schools are pretty sane).
There are crappy people everywhere, might as well do what you like to do and are good at.
I got black-balled (oops, restricted in my career of choice) for presenting a paper on the importance of teaching the Western canon in literature classes, and specifically Anglo-American canonical works in Anglo-American literature classes. It was particularly spicy as I was 7 months pregnant at the time. For such "progressive and inclusionary" people, my "colleagues" made some rather rude remarks that had nothing to do with the topic presented...go figure.
That’s because your colleagues were toxic Prog Leftists that had professors that made them hate themselves. Don’t ever challenge the worldview of people incapable of admitting that their worldview was developed from hippies taking so many hits of LSD it fried their ability to effectively reason within reality, smoking so much weed they moved through life dazed and confused, and had so much promiscuous sex that they probably contracted syphilis and became looney. I’m being a bit tongue-in-cheek with my hyperbole, but I did run across Prog Lefty professors that talked about their old professors like that glowingly.
I was fortunate to have either Conservative professors or Moderates that generally did not inject their politics into lectures and forced us to come to our own conclusions. That’s how I taught. I taught facts and objective truth in my U.S. History courses. It’s a shame your embrace of American contribution to Western Civilization was scoffed at by ivory tower douchebags that probably saw your efforts of reproduction as a threat to their ideas against the Patriarchy, heteronormativity, and Feminism. I, for one, would have high-fived you and told you to ignore the gaggle of insecure harpies and male “White” knights.
Funny you should mention the "sex, drugs, and rock n roll" (and booze)....every last one of them was indulging mightily, usually with each others' spouses, fiances, and lovers, and undergrads lots of undergrads; we (instructors and profs, some grad assistants who were not part of the "cool kid crowd") used to joke that the college was one big incestual orgy. I have seen a lot of the "frustrated Jim Morrison" in academia (I haven't figured out who the wymen and zisxirs are: frustrated Madonnas and Boy Georges???...but the desire to be "fierce" seems to be a thing for them).
That’s because Cultural Marxists are fucking degenerates, pun intended. I never wanted to be a part of a group of people that disgusted me on a cellular level, and I’m a Ben Franklin Radical Moderate that leaned Conservative that liked to party responsibly. After attending college and teaching college, I’ve developed a healthy hatred of the degenerate and demonic Prog Lefties. Never trust a word that comes out of their mouths. Beneath their feigned compassionate veneer, they are empty, hollow, childless husks of humanity sold an empty bill of goods about hierarchies and proletariat nonsense.
I made the move to public education (not to teach though), and I’m not sure what is worse, the indoctrination of children K-12 or the indoctrination of adults that are mental children in college? Since high schools don’t teach Logic, Hermeneutics, or Debate & Rhetoric anymore, the college students are atrocious. I have no desire to teach college aged children anymore. I just plan to teach my own.
Well, I'm going to continue (if I can) because I like to teach, and the public school system here is pretty good, so I don't mind working there either (I'll probably wind up there, as the local universities are going nuts but the public schools are pretty sane).
There are crappy people everywhere, might as well do what you like to do and are good at.