Editor,
Professors, please rant and impress your opinions on my mind - just don't give me an F if I disagree.
In his letter, "Warning: Campus swarms with liberal, lunatic profs," Cali Garcia calls for "agenda-neutral scholarly inquiry," crying out that "the lunatic ranting of our faculty and staff.is dangerous to impressionable young minds."
When and where was the concept of neutral education created? Further, who considered it an enlightening form of education? Come on - agenda-neutral education has never existed, and I don't want it to. Don't give me another milquetoast class, and don't insult my ability to think for myself.
My most encouraging, exciting, academically useful courses have been those in which the instructors openly shared their political positions without assessing my work based on whether I agreed with them. It's a balance that most of my professors have been able to maintain.
Professors, I want to be stimulated and agitated and made to feel uncomfortable sometimes. That's the only way I'll grow.
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Garcia's image of schooling, which is still established in the minds of many policy-makers, is one that stifles dialogue and growth.
And, frankly, it's a dishonest image. Education has never been, and cannot be, a neutral activity.
Sam Roth
UNM student
