Nathan,
Your comments are very well taken. Two comments: Most teachers are not
very good at it and do not take the time to learn how to teach
effectively. Second, new teachers, including progressives, say that
they cannot make waves til they get tenure. But passivity becomes a
habit, and it is rare inded that a professor who kept quiet for 7 years
suddenly becomes a troublemaker. I have supported for tenure some
persons with whom I had sharp political disagreements just because they
were troublemakers from the start.
Michael Yates
Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> I have to say that I have great sympathy for Michael's commentary on left
> academia. I never really intended to be an academic, although there were
> short periods when I considered it while working on my Ph.D., but the
> biggest deterrent was that I didn't want "to be" any of the folks I saw in
> the professoriat-- talking the talk but doing almost nothing to engage snip
