| The ignorance, the utter vacuity, and the total lack of common sensibilities displayed by this professor are beyond belief, thus difficult to convey in this evaluation. But then again, you reviewers spend time with this guy, he's no doubt "an esteemed colleague." So what the hell is going on here? when an incompetent fool is wasting our time and money . . . ah, but that's just it—it's precisely because he has these talents that he was given the position he now holds. But don't you people ever get tired of this charade? Don't you ever become tired and disgusted with yourselves out of your inability to speak frankly with one another? Because he holds the cards that students so desperately need, they'll tell him (and consequently, you) what he already believes . . .
But if by chance any of you ever care to challenge your judgment that [these] ramblings can only be a sure sign of 'anti-intellectual' student depravity, there would be no better way than to rig up a situation whereby you could remain unseen [in class] and then endure a complete quarter of this professor's hot air . . .
At least you owe it to yourself to know what students put up with in these classes—such knowledge might go a long way towards ending the perpetuation of all this revolting nonsense and its utterly tragic consequences.
| | [I]t would be completely incomprehensible to this person if you were to tell her that she is the source of the very (serious) problems that she so devoutly believes she is fighting to eliminate. Or how are we to explain her complete reliance upon institutional propaganda for course readings, and a concomitant inability to offer up anything but the most superficial analyses of such material? But then again, she is only one amongst the herd of those who are responsible for, as one author puts it, "reinforcing the system of indoctrination, of which they themselves are victims—as is the norm for the educated classes, who are typically the most profoundly indoctrinated and, in a deep sense, the most ignorant group, the victims as well as the purveyors of the doctrines of faith." [Noam Chomsky] . . .
Of course, all of this has been going on for decades, and you're not fool enough to give over your job for the sake of responsibility, honesty, and other such 'unrealistic' notions . . . To the contrary, you were hired to do just as you're doing. So continue to guard your position at the trough . . . meanwhile laughing off such commentary as this as one lowly (and obviously confused) student's cheap way to insult, without stopping for a moment to consider how deeply insulting this whole 'educational' operation is to [the students] who pay to legitimate your cowardly (but pretentious) presence [here].
How splendidly Orwellian all of this has become — the problems are always proclaiming themselves to be the solutions.
| | This class has been the academic equivalent of the Oprah Winfrey Show. How else are we to explain the likes of Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'souza . . . being offered up for consideration as serious scholarship . . . And who but a captured audience would accept such lie-filled and distorted work as worthy of serious study?
And this professor, in true Oprah form, pulled class discussion back down into the mud anytime it started to go beyond the control of his show.
It's a damned good thing that you reviewers are all too busy blowing hot air into each other in an effort to convince us that the Emperor has clothes (you'd lose your job if you exercised the sense of the 10-year-old who cried the truth of the matter). As the 'brilliance' that you use to describe each other has not only made you legends in your own minds but has [also] blinded you from seeing what we put up with day after day—for if you had to sit through this professor's nonsensical shtick, you wouldn't be able to dismiss these comments as easily as you do now.
As it stands, you'll take this as an indication of student depravity and pass it off with a laugh.
And for those of you who might counter that other students have heaped praise upon this or that professor, keep in mind that, by your own long-term training and instruments, yours is an audience of the most expert sycophants.
After all, black can be white and up can be down, if that's what it takes to get the job—or grade.
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