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Fish on IU

More good words for Indoctrinate U, this time from academic pundit and New York Times blogger Stanley Fish:


Academics often bridle at the picture of their activities presented by Maloney and other conservative critics, and accuse them of grossly caricaturing and exaggerating what goes on in the classroom. Maybe so, but so long as there are those who confuse advocacy with teaching, and so long as faculty colleagues and university administrators look the other way, the academy invites the criticism it receives in this documentary. In 1915, the American Association of University Professors warned that if we didn’t clean up our own shop, external constituencies, with motives more political than educational, would step in and do it for us. Now they’re doing it in the movies and it’s our own fault.

They're paying attention. And they are admitting that Maloney has a point.

Fish does get a bit picky with Maloney in places, and offers an extraordinarily specious rationale for why speech codes are nothing to be worried about. But Maloney handles him effortlessly at his own blog.

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