45 Replies to “The Educator”

  2. So many people coming and going during the video that it looked more like someone on an incoherent rant in a train station than a lecture.

  3. I wonder how long it will take for most people to realize that education is nothing more then processing information……and computer are much better at that.

  5. I liked how you could hear students – maybe just the ones making the recording – joking about the enraged, ranting prof.
    Not too long ago I attended the first class of a grad-level Anthropology course where the professor – a real blowsy hippy-type – did a “let’s get to know each other” bit where she demanded that everyone tell their name and their dream job and (IIRC) their favorite smell – very kindergarten – oh, and BTW who is your favorite politician?
    I refused to answer the last question. She palpably loathed me from then on out – thankfully I wasn’t stuck with the course.

  6. This garbage has been going on for years. Corrupt socialist professors (3/4’s of the current professors at every university in North America) have been given free reign to oppress, abuse and generally mistreat students who do not accept their depraved view of the world. Sue…Sue… Sue… Sue the professor, sue the professors union, sue the university, sue the state/province… these people only understand money when they have to spend their own.

  10. Like all bullies, they’ll fold if you confront them. A few years back, I went back to my alma mater to upgrade my degree. The newly hired junior professor teaching the advanced algorithms (computer science course) started comparing the behaviour of bad algorithms to – of all things – the Bush administration.
    I interrupted him and told him he was there to teach algorithms, not politics, and if he stuck to the curriculum I wouldn’t have to go to the Dean. Shut him up for the rest of the semester.
    I wouldn’t have tried it in a social studies course; comp sci is pretty black and white and if the prof tries to screw you on the marking it’s pretty obvious that’s what’s going on.

  11. I wonder where the parents of those kids are? It would be appropriate for someones Dad to come in and punch this insulting nutcase out.

  13. Watch the whole thing. http://vimeo.com/16649140
    Biased towards one side, and a seemingly poor understanding of the evidence, but he does make fun of the other side as well… there is some over editing here like what the CBC would do.
    One thing I noticed which is typical of when I was teaching university classes. Students coming in late, reading newspapers, talking on phones. Your tax dollars at work.
    I remember taking classes from professors like Herb Grubel (some may remember him from his Reform days). Always polite to the left wingers forced to take a real economics class. Always classy.

  15. Black Mamba, I considered taking a similar course as you, but a conservative Professor friend advised against it, essentially saying that I’d end up getting arrested because the academics would drive me over the edge …LOL.

  16. Number one transgression? He didn’t have his class’s attention. He went on and on when at least half the class was talking, out of their seats, taking videos with cell phones, etc. If you can’t settle your class down, that’s already a fail.
    It could only go downhill from there. This guy sounds like he’s off his meds. Seriously. He’s a raving lunatic — totally aside from the fact that he’s a typical, whacko Leftard.

  17. It didn’t take long to mention that you need to give up a lot of your money. That is what it’s all about , getting a hold of other peoples money.

  18. Universities deserve fools like him.
    Keeps him out of business where someone would have to get ugly and fire him.

  19. Let this be a lesson kiddies! Don’t cut classes or you will miss exciting freak shows just like this when your out chugging beer or throwing the frisbee!
    Hey – Prof! I am sitting in this corner because it is the one furthest away from you! Try not to spit when ya rant, will ya?

  21. I’ve seen chicken coops run with more decorum and professionalism, so that’s the face of higher education today. Alas no wonder so many of our youth can’t live in the real world.

  23. It’s good to see that yoots still don’t pay much attention to people over 30.
    Although we have seen how Al Gore and his climate fagots are drilling in to the elementary school kids with gusto.
    They are the only ones left who can still be fooled.

  26. I nobody will listen to you, get a job as a university professor as a teacher.
    That captive audience HAS TO listen to you, no matter what manaical rantings you unleash.
    If this prof had been in a room of adults …

  27. “That captive audience HAS TO listen to you, no matter what manaical rantings you unleash”
    – no, the class obviously was paying no attention to him.
    I would suspect that his tenure decision (where student input is important, in most schools) will not go well.

  28. A lecture on the two-slit experiment,
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXvAla2y9wc&feature=related,
    is much more typical of classroom conduct in the
    hard sciences as I know and knew it.
    University education isn’t what it used to be, but in the sciences and engineering,
    but the LSU video is not typical.
    That LSU astronomy lecture is pathetic. Especially
    so as GW if it exists is probably due to solar
    variability.

  29. Hey Blackie @ 1:02:
    You can hear someone (male) say, sarcastically, “He’s fair and ballanced.” Wherever has he heard that expression before?

  31. This goes on in medical schools too, of all places. I made myself -most- unpopular asking sharply pointed questions from the back of the room.
    I passed anyway. Don’t be a wuss, kids. Bang on the prof with the truthyness. Its fun, and you learn a lot looking stuff up to bang the son of a biscuit with.

  32. “Advice to the students … go into skilled trades.”
    Absolutely,Watcher,we need skilled tradesmen a lot more than we need graduates with “soft” degrees. I know many kids who are waiting tables,still at home with Mom ‘n Dad,or waiting breathlessly to see if their government grant for a useless project comes through.
    That professor should be fired out on his commie butt!

  33. Jim O’Brien @ 1:30, your first sentence, exactly. I have some kids who have graduated and can attest to what you say and a sister-in-law who teaches that says this is going on big time. She has learned to keep her mouth shut about her views or she gets the Keller treatment.

  34. So if the extremes take to the edges and they are doomed, only the mushy middle survives. I’m surprised no one asked where do the A-holes stand? Front of the class?

  35. Posted by: John Lewis at November 20, 2010 11:54 AM
    Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough.
    The professor is obviously in a position of power over the students based on a respect for his knowledge.
    At least professors were respected when what they said dealt with the subject matter.
    Professors as exemplified in the video, as somebody else has already alluded to, believe they can change the world for the better (all previous generations screwed it up, don’t you know).
    And, what better place to spout their nonsense than in front of students.
    The scary part is that university-level students are at least recognized as adults, so the targets of these marxist activists have to reach into lower age groups.
    That’s why parents have to be vigilant against the brainwashing of their children.

  36. nomdeblog @8:21 – sad to say, I’m one of those losers who, if sentenced to a purgatory in the Academy, would be forever trapped in the Humanities. I do hate people like me. But my aptitude for science/math, let alone my interest in those things, was never near equal to my proclivity for the squishy arts.
    That being said, many fields in the humanities are well worthwhile (obviously Women’s Studies, Race Grievance/Lies about Ancient Egypt Studies, Gay Nonesense Studies etc. are worthless self-parodies). Still, there’s Eng. Lit., Classics, History, Linguistics, yadda yadda. But the rot is such that even a semi-decent field like Archaeology gets hoplessly corrupted. One problem is that for every kid who should be taking these courses there are eight who should never have felt that they needed to go to University in the first place; and their profs are radicalized idiots.
    The Hard Sciences have (rightly, IMO, from their point of view) written off the Humanities as hopelessly corrupt. (An interesting account of how this happened on the ground at the University of Chicago is laid out in the last 1/3 of the great Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American mind; several books in one, really, that one.)

  37. Yes, Black Mamba, and how times have changed! The humanities were and were perceived as, at every other moment in human history, an absolutely crucial component in ANY society; Humanities were the very engine of our cultural success, the spiritual and philosophical foundation upon which all schoolchildren went forth and achieved in their particular field. It was an exercise in self-exploration, but one where deconstruction and self-loathing were NOT the end goals. Many say that the British Empire collapsed primarily because of the drastic change in how its children were instructed in the Humanities, and not because of any technological or economic impairment. I tend to agree.
    Despite being a 20-something and, thus, too young to have lived them, I nevertheless yearn for the days when English literature was studied without unending references to “colonialism,” “patriarchy,” and “racism” (and I do mean real *literature*, NOT Atwood/Ondaatje/CanLit multiculti relativist tripe). I yearn for non-revisionist and culturally confident history, well-grounded philosophical inquiry that doesn’t rely on postmodernism and nihilism, and anthropology that isn’t soaked to the bone with feminist lies, etc. etc. ad infinitum.
    The problem is that people like me – white, athletic-looking males with short haircuts – must exist in a perpetual state of apology and self-loathing if they have any hope whatsoever of academic advancement beyond the Undergraduate level in Humanities (even then they’re on thin ice). And, regardless of your demographical vice or virtue, if you openly display even a soupçon of conservatism (and that can mean something so simple as opposing, say, free and open borders) — HA! Forget it! You’re done.
    In the humanities, the quality of your work couldn’t matter any less than it does right now. The ONLY way you advance in the Arts is through the correct application political advocacy or, at the very least, political complicity. I have no idea how you fix something like this when people with potential are not permitted to rise through the ranks.

  38. Nobody cared & he knew it. Thus the theatrics.
    The whole class except for the usual lefties have long ago known this is all crap. I mean how long has it been since the data dump in England showing its a fraud?
    You can bet these students know.
    They use the Web.
    How can you respect a person who’s a fool, hence the lack of scholastic decorum.
    JMO

  39. The Humanities, if they’re not approached with humility, faith, and an accurate sense of historical fact are a bust.
    I totally agree, Incisor, that CanLit is a lost cause. It’s not genuine literature, as it plays off the politically correct dysfunction of the week, making “literary lions” out of average writers, as though merely being Canadian bestows literary virtue on mediocre authors.
    The Humanities used to have a salutary, civilizing, and widening-of-horizons effect on those who studied them, as windows on the world of art, culture, religion. No longer. The hatred of DWEMS (Dead, White, English/European Males) has rendered the Humanities nothing more than a class-/gender-envious rant, allowing room only for victims of every shape and size. Your shape and size, however, mustn’t be white, Anglo-Saxon, male, motherly, or heterosexual.
    Those qualities just won’t do.

  41. This video is pure propaganda. The editor must have attended the Michael Moore School of Film. If anyone here actually cares about reality, go check out the full unedited footage.

  42. “This video is pure propaganda. The editor must have attended the Michael Moore School of Film. If anyone here actually cares about reality, go check out the full unedited footage.”
    Alex, time to step away from the crack pipe.
    I’ve watched the full video and it only confirms that the professor is a hysterical, propagandizing nutjob.

  43. For a real Teacher watch this. Man this is one hardcore dude. That he allowed them a second chance because of those who didn’t cheat, just makes me more respectful. You can tell this chocked him up.
    A REAL professional, who takes learning serious!!
    Trust me , its well worth watching.
    Professor Puts Fear of God in Cheaters
    He caught them. And after this ethics lecture, more than 200 turned themselves in. 14:59
    http://www.nationalreview.com/

  44. Modern Humanities suffer from a lack of curiosity. The only boundaries that are challenged are how an already wacky idea can become even more radical and absurd. The premise of the wacky idea is treated as proven and not a hypothesis to be questioned.

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