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The Quiet Scandal of College Teaching (libertiesjournal.com)
2 points by jseliger on Dec 10, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments




tl;dr but…

“ In 1970, a presidential commission on campus unrest connected the nationwide spate of violent protests that year — including eight thousand actual or attempted bombings and seven thousand arrests — to weak undergraduate teaching. College professors “have become so involved in outside research that their commitment to teaching seems compromised,” the commission found. Unrest was most common at the largest universities, which had “failed [students] in a larger moral sense” by herding them into enormous classes taught by disengaged faculty members or inexperienced graduate students. ”

lol. Not like Vietnam or getting drafted had anything to do with it. Who writes this stuff?




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