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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Sandman on June 07, 2005, 12:16:04 AM
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I started another semester tonight. Class is in American Military History and the prof is a retired judge.
I tell ya... I'm just amazed. I thought I had a pretty good left lean going, but I'm definitely to the right of this guy.
This should be a fun class.
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Heh, you should post Cliff Notes of the class on here. Could get interesting.:D
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Originally posted by Sandman
I started another semester tonight. Class is in American Military History and the prof is a retired judge.
I tell ya... I'm just amazed. I thought I had a pretty good left lean going, but I'm definitely to the right of this guy.
This should be a fun class.
That's the trouble. I always tended to think of myself as left leaning. The problem is the left keeps going further left and I was left (no pun intended) behind.
Meanwhile the right think I'm a pinko commie.
Sigh, you just can't win!:(
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I get a kick out of people your age going to school. I think it's great. I hope to follow your example (even though I'm no youngun' myself). Yeah.... just very cool.
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Originally posted by Nash
I get a kick out of people your age going to school. I think it's great. I hope to follow your example (even though I'm no youngun' myself). Yeah.... just very cool.
Bah... it's a pain in the ass. ;) At this point in my career, I don't really need the BS degree for anything other than the MS, which might come in handy.
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a lot of us older guys have had to go back to school in order to keep up with our jobs.
working all day and taking a 3hour or so class at night is wearysome.
The far left leanings of the professors who have never had a job or lived a life is sometimes irritating.
at the root of it....
Most of em are simply angry at the right because they feel that the right is persecuting them and not allowing them to enjoy all the drugs and underage women/men that they feel entitled to as superior human beings.
lazs
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Ha...."superior human beings"...college proffessors know less about the real world than anybody...hell quite a few graduate from college and go right into being a professor..sad really..trying to brainwash our college age kids with their political agendas.
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I take it college is foreign territory to you ASTAC?
-SW
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Originally posted by ASTAC
...trying to brainwash our college age kids with their political agendas.
so true it is sometimes scary
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:rolleyes:
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I take it college is foreign territory to you ASTAC?
-SW
Hey, he saw Animal House!
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Originally posted by JB73
so true it is sometimes scary
So what's your degree in? :rolleyes:
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
I take it college is foreign territory to you ASTAC?
-SW
No..I've been in the past and am aattending now...I once asked my college algebra professor what the presidential elections had to do with math..he told me to shut up it was his class and we'd discuss whatever he wanted..funny I assumed that even college classes have curriculums...I have encountered quite a few that abuse their position in this way. I made the mistake of stating my views from a military prospective...now I get **** for being a right wing nutjob in his class when political discussions start.
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Originally posted by ASTAC
...now I get **** for being a right wing nutjob in his class when political discussions start.
:D
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Never had that happen.
-SW
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If it's the retired judge I took there, I sincerely hope your class is better than the Government class I took with him in '99. Possibly the second least useful class I've taken in 6 years of post high school education.
-Sik
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I have a brother-in-law that received his PhD in "The effects of British Colonialism on the environment" which was strictly history related, not scientifically based. He did alot of work with Cambrige as a result and ended up as a college proffessor with a midwest school.
The funny thing is that he went from being a student to being a student teacher to being a teacher. Nothing else in between. I enjoy hearing him talk about "the real world" when we get together at Christmas. His real world involves people like "dumb jocks" and "the quad". He's 43 years old. I think that's funny.
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Ah yes, gotta love the educational bully pulpit.
Back in the early 90s a few years after I became a Christian, a co-worker in our Christian fellowship suggested we start studying Koine Greek so we could read the New Testament in the original. She had heard that the Department of Agriculture had an evening adult education program that was teaching "Biblical Greek" so three of us ended up signing up for the class.
We found out on the first night that the class was being taught by a militant homosexual from a local Unitarian Universalist congregation. His teaching methodology consisted of taking a sentence, making one or two translational notes, then launching into 10 minutes of eisegesis on the passage the sentence was from, and if it was a narrative, why it couldn't have happened, and how it was inevitably offensive to women, minorities, and homosexuals, followed by suggestions as to what would have been a "better teaching" than the biblical original.
After 4 nights (2 hours each) of this, we approached him and literally begged him to just teach us Greek pointing out that we hadn't paid for an intro to Homosexual hermeneutics, biblical deconstruction, and political theory, we had paid to learn Greek. Our request was treated with utter contempt, and he suggested that if we stuck around and shut-up we just might learn something about the way things really were. We stayed for one more class, during which he launched into a tirade on how the apostle Paul was obviously a self-loathing homosexual himself, at which point I closed my book and walked out.
Four years later I started studying Koine Greek at Westminster Seminary as part of my M.Div degree. It was only at that point that I realized that the teacher at the D. Ag. night course didn't actually speak or read Greek well at all, which in itself was a lesson. Often the "agenda" your teachers press, serves dual duty, first it allows them to harangue a captive audience with their opinions and second they are either consciously or sub-consciously hoping it will cover up their mediocre or simply lousy grasp of the subject they are teaching and their poor teaching ability. Sadly this occasionally happens in the real pulpit as well, a lot of "political preaching" occurs simply because the minister in question doesn't really have a good understanding of the passages he is supposed to be expositing, so he merely uses them as a springboard into the subjective realm of his own political opinions.
- SEAGOON
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algebra in college??
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Originally posted by Furious
algebra in college??
I believe it's pretty common for returning students to have to take non-credit math and english courses to get back up to speed on a few things.
-Sik
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right, for no credit.
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Originally posted by Furious
right, for no credit.
right
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I gotta say... the textbook (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0029215978/qid=1118355840/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-8653449-3284126?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) for this class is fantastic. I'm actually enjoying reading it.
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I must be in the minority (no pun intended).
In the two years that I've gone back to school I haven't had a single bad instructor or professor.
There has been a few difficult ones that expect much from their students but not really any bad ones.
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Originally posted by Sikboy
right
right
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Yeah, I've had some pretty decent teachers, even in history classes. Now that I think about it, I also had 2 economics professors who were very good. They kept out of politics rather well.
But everyonce in a while a professor will just say something really, really really stupid.
I've learned that it's better to keep my Golly-geen mouth shut than to see the look on the professor's face as I embarass them infront of the entire class. Even if I do win, I lose. There's no real control over the professor writing down an F.
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I had a decent economics prof too. I had several decent engineering profs. I didn't have a single decent grad-student/teacher.
My all-time favorite ****heal of a proff taught one of my writing classes. One day at class, he went on and on about impressionist art and then into the details of the differences between the french and american forms. He knew his ****. When I got home, I noticed a monet painting on the living section of the paper and I read the article... it was almost verbatum what the prof had said in the class. He passed off that article like it was his own thoughts to a group of students that had no reason to think otherwise just to try to impress them. He also invited the young male students over to his place where he read them poetry while wearing a kimono. The bastard never invited me.
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I think he was looking for virgin turf.
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I had a small business professor who's own businesses (all 5 of them) had folded up and gone bankrupt. I dropped the class.
And on my very first college class ever, US History up to... I don't remember the date, but I do remember the professor explaining to the auditorium full of us that he received an average of 2 death threats per semester, knows how to handle evidence, and has lots of friends in the HPD & HPD crime lab... his 50% failure rate had alot to do with it I assume.
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Originally posted by Furious
right
I'm glad to see that we're on the same page here.
-Sik
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you were supposed to type "right" again. now the fun is over.
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Originally posted by Mini D
He also invited the young male students over to his place where he read them poetry while wearing a kimono. The bastard never invited me.
Argghh...cola through the nose on that one.:rofl