Your psychology professor must have been a Jansenist. My linguistics tutor was deaf, which always struck me as probably a disadvantage for someone in his field. However, now that I too am practically deaf I've started to revise my opinion.
-- Cheers, Bob > > Our universities are more heavily funded with tax dollars than yours > are in the States, IIRC, and no, I wouldn't mind if anyone here taught > those courses, partially funded by the public purse. > > Universities teach all sorts of things that I don't believe in, like > sociology, psychology and (white male's) history, but I don't complain > about that. > > I remember the very first university lecture that I attended: it was > intro psychology. Within the first 5 minutes the prof said, "The > first thing you must understand is that we live in a deterministic > universe. Every thing is predetermined. The reason we can't predict > the exact path of a boulder bouncing down a hill is that we don't know > all the variables. If we knew them all with perfect accuracy, and if > we could calculate the effect of all of them, we could perfectly > predict the path of the careening boulder. The universe is like that, > and so are human beings." > > That was presented as fact, not opinion. To me it was as much folly > as teaching Marilyn Munroe conspiracy theories or teaching that US > Gov't bombs helped fell the WTC. > > I didn't try to muzzle the prof, get that course off the curriculum or > anything like that. I dropped the course, changed majors, and took > philosophy (and look where it got me today!! <g>). > > cheers, > frank > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
