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It's funny, but I learned in college (the hard way) never to disagree with a professor - especially a "liberal" professor. They claim to encourage "a free flow of ideas and information," but if you hold a view that offends the sensibilities of your professor, your professor will get his/her revenge on the first paper you submit for grade. I remember in particular a professor I had who just happened to be Irish. I had read a book about the Cuban Missile Crisis - written by another professor - that was highly critical of President Kennedy and his handling of the crisis. The point of the book was not so much how Kennedy dealt with the missile crisis itself, but the events which culminated in the crisis; especially the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The professor's point was that the Cuban Missile Crisis [probably] would not have happened - bringing the world to the brink of utter destruction - if Kennedy had not launched (and then aborted) the Bay of Pigs invasion. The author of the book advanced the theory that Khrushchev and the Russians were fully justified in placing intermediate range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba after the United States (and Kennedy) had launched an invasion with the express purpose of toppling Castro. Castro (and Khrushchev) had every reason to believe that Kennedy would try again, so installing the missiles was a direct consequence of the Bay of Pigs.
So, as part of a class assignment, I write up a review of the professor's book. This was highly offensive to my professor - who was a great JFK fan - and thought our former President had handled the crisis brilliantly. I got a "C" on my paper - along with a stern written rebuke about being "wrong" and misinterpreting history.
It's funny, but I learned in college (the hard way) never to disagree with a professor - especially a "liberal" professor. They claim to encourage "a free flow of ideas and information," but if you hold a view that offends the sensibilities of your professor, your professor will get his/her revenge on the first paper you submit for grade. I remember in particular a professor I had who just happened to be Irish. I had read a book about the Cuban Missile Crisis - written by another professor - that was highly critical of President Kennedy and his handling of the crisis. The point of the book was not so much how Kennedy dealt with the missile crisis itself, but the events which culminated in the crisis; especially the botched Bay of Pigs invasion. The professor's point was that the Cuban Missile Crisis [probably] would not have happened - bringing the world to the brink of utter destruction - if Kennedy had not launched (and then aborted) the Bay of Pigs invasion. The author of the book advanced the theory that Khrushchev and the Russians were fully justified in placing intermediate range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba after the United States (and Kennedy) had launched an invasion with the express purpose of toppling Castro. Castro (and Khrushchev) had every reason to believe that Kennedy would try again, so installing the missiles was a direct consequence of the Bay of Pigs.
So, as part of a class assignment, I write up a review of the professor's book. This was highly offensive to my professor - who was a great JFK fan - and thought our former President had handled the crisis brilliantly. I got a "C" on my paper - along with a stern written rebuke about being "wrong" and misinterpreting history.
That said, if you try to argue that CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas or something, you're going to make bad grades. As you should.
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I learned from that experience that you deal with college professors the same way you deal with women: Tell 'em lies and feed 'em candy.
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