Submitted by Charlton Lee, Feb 8, 2007 15:32

A good article. I have retired from being a professor and I must say that the pressures to "conform" to the point of view of one philosophy was huge. Cultural diversity, faculty hiring, or academic curriculum was almost expected to be a one sided view and if anyone would challenge that, a look of disdain and of superiority would follow while you were told, as if a child, that your position was not appropriagte for the college.

The intellectual snobbery and eliteism seems a product of an environment which demans little or no classroom accountability from professors, and occupying a position which to which the culture places a high degree of .importance, and professors often are the products of educational system which lifted them out of lower social class which in turn, produces an inflated view of their own ability. Add the fact that they feed on each other's narrow views, it is no suprise that they have become the darlings of the ACLU and socialistic thinking.

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