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Originally Posted by legion View Post
Of course you probably fail to see the difference. College should be about learning, not about pleasing professors. Learning facts, building a knowledge base, and learning how to deconstruct an argument; not regurgitating some self-important egotist's truthisms.

And an institution should not profess to be about the free exploration of ideas if some ideas are off limits.
That is your version of what college *should* be. The funny thing is that the prof likely says the same thing.

I've been on all sides of the aisle on this one. I've seen idiotic faculty and totally clueless/obnoxious students. And of course neither group thought that they fell in that category...
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