UCF Professor Tells Ignorant Students What Higher Education is Really About

Charles Negy

Charles Negy directly address the impact of students' religious bigotry, small mindedness and irrationality in the college classroom.  Anyone who has ever taught a college class, especially in the humanities, knows that every word he wrote is accurate.

Negy addresses his students in an email and reasonably but sternly takes them to task for wanting university to be like high school and to conform to their pre-conceived notions or beliefs, wanting no challenge to the doctrines instilled by church and parents.

This of course is not what college is for.

The purpose of a university…is to struggle intellectually with some of life’s most difficult topics that might not have one right answer, and try to come to some conclusion what might be “the better answer”…

Link: http://i.imgur.com/6XCBq.png

Charles Negy's webpage: http://www.psych.ucf.edu/faculty_negy.php