The National Post has given Lindsay Shepherd the opportunity to share her recent experiences in her own words. It’s eloquent and brilliant. It should be mandatory reading for university and high school students across Canada.
WLU’s interrogation of my decision to air two sides of a topical debate was so troubling because it revealed that these educators don’t believe critical thinking matters, or that they fear students exercising critical thought might lead them to politically incorrect conclusions. If that’s the case, how can these departments justify charging students for these degrees?
“Despite the intellectual beating I got from my superiors…”
A couple of points of order:
1) They are NOT your superiors.
2) The beating you received was anything but intellectual.
Lindsay has been attacked mostly by professors and PhD students. I suspect that is because she represents what they pretend to be but know they are not – intellectually curious and open=minded.
As Dr. Peterson said in a recent interview, “They picked the wrong girl to mess with.”
Well done, Lindsay. With a LOT of luck. you may even start the revolution to get universities back on track to promoting free speech and independent thought.
Though it’s going to be a tough struggle; remember back in the day when offsprings had issues with meeting the requirement that everyone take a certain number of arts courses, and the difficulties said offsprings had with some of said courses. Actually, that dates back to my uni days, when was required to take “arts” courses. Said courses were all mainstream arts courses, and my classmates included majors and honours students in that particular field of studies. Not so for the arts students: any “science” classes they were required to attend were seriously watered down for them and had no lab component – heaven forfend they should have more than a 15-hour week (five courses at three lectures per week). Would have loved to have seen them have to take first year geology – or chemistry – or biology – with attendant labs.
“how can these departments justify charging students for these degrees?”
That’s quite the punchline, isn’t it? Another one: “People are paying for this?”. Other relevant questions would be “What are these professors even doing here?” and “Why do they have jobs?”, or even better “These are professors?! With PhDs? For real?!”
Yes, I read Lindsey’s Op-Ed in the NP. That paper has moved so far to the left I am actually surprised they gave her space.
She might want to watch her back.
Actually, that dates back to my uni days, when was required to take “arts” courses.
I did that as well when I was an undergrad.
During my sophomore year in mechanical engineering, I took an anthropology course because it was the only one I could fit into my schedule. Many of the other students were in engineering and the prof didn’t hold us in high esteem. Not only did we often have opinions and ideas which conflicted with those he had, he took great joy in belittling us simply because we were studying engineering.
When I caught on that the only way to pass the course was GIGO (garbage in, garbage out), I parroted back to the prof in my term papers and exams whatever he told us in the lectures.
I ended up acing it.
During my sophomore year in mechanical engineering, I took an anthropology course because it was the only one I could fit into my schedule
At my alma mater, we were afforded one elective every other term; the engineering faculty negotiated with the Arts faculty to offer a list of five courses each term guaranteed to be offered in the only empty slot in a 40+ hour class week. I suspect those courses were as watered down as the non-math “science” courses the Arts students took.
Me, I gave three different deans conniptions playing Tetris with my schedule to fit the Classical Studies minor in there.
I would like to chat with the “dude” that was offended from Shepherds first class. How weak are you? I am from Saskatoon and the city council has done some really stupid urban planning… but i am proud to be a toon towner.
I am from Saskatchewan and this province has done some stupid stuff(both NDP ..AND sask Party)
I am Canadian… and don’t get me going on our gov’t the last x number of years…. Yet I am a proud true north strong and free Canuck.
So to some alphabet “dude” that was “offended” by Ms Shepherd’s class… Either you are proud of who you are and can defend your point of view and be comfortable with yourself ….-or-…. you question your own life and have doubt that your choices/identity have real meaning.
Pick one
Apologize to literary awesome people out there. I have been too busy last 30 years working with my hands to learn how to be literate and make my point as positionally sound as Ms Shepherds professor.
It would be interesting were a student to take WLU to small claims court claiming that they breached their contract and didn’t provide the education and environment as stipulated. The words on the WLU website are clear enough, now make them defend it in court.
It would be more interesting if many students would do so, even more so if some alumni were to jump in an claim back their contributions.
Just saying…
Attagirl! May your spine and guts be an example for those lacking.
15 hour week? when I took my engineering we had 39 hours a week of class and labs. what do they do with their spare time?
Let analyse this.
Lindsey Sheppard should get the Woman of the year or Person of the year, take yer pick.
Not because one might agree or disagree with what she has done and said.
The reason she should be the Woman of the year is because she stood up to the destroyers of human thought, destroyers of freedom, destroyers of western liberal (as opposed to Liberal)*, democratic culture.
The two interrogators represent the inquisition that the liberal* students and teachers, professors and other such are subject to from the totalitarian dictators that pretend to be defenders of something.
The interrogators could not get a real job if their life depended on it, so they hide behind a tenured barrier of nothingness.
Would suggest here again, the interrogators are the way the totalitarians, dictators and tyrants worm their way, little bit by little bit, into the fabric of healthy life to destroy it. You only have to hear the idiotic arguments of the interrogators that are complete nonsense. Apparently they have not learned anything while never leaving school other than lingo gymnastics however collapsible they are.
It is a desire of your agent that the young woman started a revolution. With support of those that like and understand the ideas that she presented at learning institutions of this country.
Yeah, there is no hope, though there is a way and should be taken.
*conservatives of today are in fact the liberals of yesterday
They are supposed to be reading thousands of books, but I don’ think they bother, and I doubt anyone notices.
They are right to be afraid.
A 6 minute video of Jordan Peterson can undo years of liberal programming.
That’s pretty good mileage!
They know a couple of hours of listening to a conservative speak common sense can undo all their efforts at programming Marxism and other stupidity into these kids.
Well said. Further, “Would suggest here again, the interrogators are the way the totalitarians, dictators and tyrants worm their way, little bit by little bit, into the fabric of healthy life to destroy it.”
No doubt the Chekists also had soothing interrogation for the first few days, that is before the took the truncheons to you.
Never mind students…it should be mandatory reading for the fascist faculty.
I quite like a FREE Lindsay Shepherd. She SOUNDS more logical, and intelligent as a FREE woman … that is … if … she accepts my “she” and “woman” descriptors.