Learning's for terr'ists!

[JakeD]

Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities.
The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed 8-to-2 despite strenuous objections from the only two Democrats on the committee.
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“Freedom is a dangerous thing, and you might be exposed to things you don’t want to hear,” he said. “Being a businessman, I found out you can be sued for anything. Besides, if students are being persecuted and ridiculed for their beliefs, I think they should be given standing to sue.”
This is the most retarded thing I've ever heard of. I really hope that it doesn't get passed, and the idea of students being able to sue over a lesson genuinely disturbs me.

[Poseidon]

I am filing a lawsuit against Unforgiven's math teacher cause I disagree that the integral of 1 over x with respect to x is natural log of x plus c

[Amaurote]

That is utterly crazy, isn't it? What I find interesting is that the Republican Party (notably Nixon) used to pose as the defender of authority in education, and now it's apparently bent on a policy that will make all teachers subject to the whims of their students. They're accomplishing a cultural revolution that will actually backfire amazingly on them in the long-term, because the last thing the GOP wants is a critical-thinking electorate.

I have to say, when I was at university I preferred lecturers with passionate views - left, right (one of our history teachers was a corn-up-the-arse revisionist who characterised the French Revolution as a bread riot), centre, it didn't matter; just so long as they were objective when it came to marking, it made the syllabus much more interesting.

[JakeD]

I have to say, when I was at university I preferred lecturers with passionate views - left, right (one of our history teachers was a corn-up-the-arse revisionist who characterised the French Revolution as a bread riot), centre, it didn't matter; just so long as they were objective when it came to marking, it made the syllabus much more interesting.

EXACTLY. The crazier the teacher, the better the quality of the lesson, I say. My junior year Literature teacher was a certifiable whackjob with a razor-sharp wit and absolutely NO tolerance for idiocy, but I learned more about writing and literature from her than I had any of her peers, and she still remains one of the best teachers I've ever had.

[Thaum1el]

Interesting step by Florida, I must say, since they're the one state that has had leaders of "Islamic Jihad", responsible for last months suicide bombing i Tel Aviv, teaching Middle East Studies on a university.

Info here (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1513024,00.html)