Williams: Answers from a Perfect Sociology Test

Posted by Jim Spence on Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Labels:
Walter Williams
Townhall - The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea of the academic rot at so many of our colleges. Save for a tiny handful of the nation's colleges, what distinguishes one college from another is the magnitude of that rot. One of the best sources of information about our colleges is the New York City-based Manhattan Institute's quarterly Web magazine, Minding the Campus, edited by John Leo, former columnist for U.S. News & World Report. The magazine's Winter 2010 edition contains an article by Dr. Candace de Russy, former member of the board of trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY), titled "Hate-America Sociology." De Russy's colleague sent her a copy of a student's exam from an introductory sociology class found lying in a room at an East Coast public college. The professor had given it a perfect score of 100. Here are some of the questions asked and the student's written response: Read full column here: News New Mexico
Share/Bookmark

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nothing is new to me on this front. My son once took a government course here at NMSU. A good portion of the course included writing an opinion on selected questions presented by the professor. This was one of the questions: "Should the Bush administration abandon it's policy of preemptive aggression and unilateral military intervention in Iraq or seek international support from member states of the UN?" - The question itself was insulting and categorically totally incorrect from the standpoint that a coalition of more than 20 other nations JOINED us in removing Saddam from power. I thought it would be equally appropriate for my son to ask the professor, in class, if he still beats his wife and INSIST that he answer either, "YES" or "NO" and make light of his answer and draw comparisons. My son said he was afraid to say anything that would run contrary to his college professor's political views for fear of receiving a reduced grade. In college government and sociology classes most college professors could care less about teaching students how to apply critical thinking in analyzing reality.

April 20, 2011 at 7:13 PM

Post a Comment