It was just before lunch when I
received a phone call from my wife, Deb. She was taking a lunch break
from her microbiology class at the local college when she called.
You may ask “What was so important
that she had to call DCE during lunch?”
I can tell you on three words: She.
Was. Livid.
During the morning lecture her
professor, in the midst of talking about microbiology, went off on a
tangent. That in itself isn't all that remarkable. It happens from
time to time. But this time was different.
The 'tangent' in this case was a
political diatribe that lasted quite some time. All the professor did
was spout vitriol and vile slanders on Republicans, praise the
all-knowing and caring Democrats, demonized anybody who disagreed
with Leftist ideology, and so on. Some of the other students were
overtly agreeing with the professor, but others were uncomfortable as
the diatribe continued. As the vitriol continued, Deb started getting
mad.
I have to explain that while Deb is
fiscally conservative, she has her liberal side (and by liberal I
mean a classic liberal, not a “government-knows-best” liberal). I
guess that makes her libertarian.
Did what the professor was saying
piss her off? No, not really. As she told me the professor did
have a few valid points (though very few).
So what was it that was pissing her off? Simply this:
She had paid good money that we
could not easily afford to take a microbiology class she needed in
her quest to become an RN. She hadn't paid that money to be subjected
to a leftist political diatribe that belonged in a Marxist Political
Science 102 lecture.
She called me again a couple of hours
later, telling me that she'd gone to her adviser to complain about
what had happened in the class. At that point her adviser started
spouting off as well. Needless to say, that pissed off my wife even
more.
So what has she learned from this
episode in her college career?
Institutions of higher learning are
not about education, but political indoctrination.
So
endith the lesson.