Teachers

residenttroll wrote: Conservatives are bullied by the liberal peer review boards - that's why you don't have many conservative professors.

rofllol Really? They're that weak-willed and minded? You give conservative professors absolutely no credit; I personally think they are stronger and more outspoken than that.

Plus most libtards are book smart and brain wash with limited practical experience or "experts" in worthless disciplines (i.e Women Studies or Gay Lesbian Literature) ....it's like a fraternity of stupid educators .... Phi Dumba Lotta...and we want more neophytes so we can "educate" according to our liberal pledge books.

That's quite the generalization there. Book smart doesn't automatically mean that one lacks common sense. And brain washing and critical thinking don't/can't really coexist (thinking of scientists here, of whom a majority are liberal, but not atheist, as your next paragraph tries to imply).

This movie pretty much explains your question. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed by Ben Stein.

OMG, you seriously use this as a source? It was so fake, even a monkey could figure it out. :thumbsup:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... ou-to-know

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/movies/18expe.html

This goes further than a willful misunderstanding of the scientific method. The film suggests, for example, that Dr. Sternberg lost his job at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History because of intellectual discrimination but neglects to inform us that he was actually not an employee but rather an unpaid research associate who had completed his three-year term.

“Expelled” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). It has smoking guns and drunken logic.

http://www.expelledexposed.com/new_scientist.php

What have Nazis to do with a film about the "conflict" between evolution and intelligent design? Everything, apparently. The film-makers' logic is that by teaching evolution, the US public school system is telling children that there is no God, morality or free will. And this can lead to only one thing: Holocaust.

Expelled is pure propaganda, its style reminiscent of a sub-standard Michael Moore flick complete with voice-over narration and lots of aimless wandering around. Its selling point is that academic freedom in the US is threatened by a vast conspiracy of atheist scientists, hypnotised by what Stein labels in the film the "Darwinian gospel". Supporters of ID are fired from their institutions or denied tenure, the film argues, while journalists who report on ID are silenced or shunned. This is an old trick. By claiming their views are suppressed, proponents of ID hope to be protected from criticism. When someone argues that ID is bogus, all they need do is yell: "See? Suppression!"

Speaking for grade school public education, I'd say that the teachers ideological views will generally mirror the community - I grew up in a highly conservative area and probably had more Republican voting teachers than most of you seem to assume occurs in reality. Education is education, it shouldn't be turned into conservative versus liberal, but effective versus ineffective, factual versus indoctrinating. Of the groups trying hardest to institute indoctrination, I submit that it's the conservatives trying harder than liberals - making sure "God is kept in schools" (even though there's supposed to be separation of church and state), and the ridiculousness of pushing creationism and questioning of climate science (but not genetics or chemistry, curiously) in science classes.

I personally would love to see more conservative professors at the college level (and am not sure why there aren't greater numbers of them) - their viewpoint would only improve obtaining a comprehensive, well-informed education. But a big part of college education is to teach students how to think critically, and questioning of professors viewpoints occurs often (at least, I saw that, across a broad spectrum of subjects). As CriticalBill stated, he noticed a liberal slant, a restriction of taught viewpoints, and didn't blindly accept that - and I don't think he's a unique case. Maybe students aren't self-motivated to go search out opposite viewpoints while in school, but they aren't brainwashed idiots either.