(1) The idiots described in this story who expelled a student from an education program because he wrote a paper espousing corporal punishment in school. I mean, just, wow. That is SO WRONG. Even if you’re 100% convinced that his position is wrong and evil and cruel and idiotic, well, you’re EDUCATORS. Educate him as to why it’s wrong. Convince him. Don’t EXPEL him, for that or ANY expression of thoughts and ideas, perhaps barring some grossly extreme case of race baiting, child porn, fighting words or something. My goodness. I’m hoping that this turns out to be some kind of misunderstanding.
(2) Anyone who reads that story and blames it on “the liberals”, as if liberals are small-minded idiots who can’t deal with diversity of opinion, free expression, or the marketplace of ideas. It’s possible that whoever made that idiotic decision is, in fact, more or less liberal. It’s possible that he or she is not. But in any case, that type of action does NOT represent liberals as a whole.
Who’s he? Honestly, this issue is confusing enough, based on the fact that the OP and the link only refer to one side’s part of the story. LeMoyne is the name of the educational institution that appears to have declined to re-enroll the Masters candidate.
And now I can’t even get to the story without registering.
This thread dovetails perfectly with the thread about studenst not knowing anything about free speech. People complain about the students’ lack of intrest/understanding, of something they are not allowed to have (free speech and independent thought). Oh the hypocrisy.
I was gonna blame the Rosicrucians. Or maybe the neo-Syndicalists.
Wonder what would have happened if he’d written a paper that advocated paddling the instructors?
