Academic intimidation

The Washington Times: Academic intimidation

By Thomas Sowell

There is an article in the current issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education — the trade publication of the academic world — about professors being physically intimidated by their students.

“Most of us dread physical confrontation,” the author says. “And so these aggressive, and even dangerous, students get passed along, learning that intimidation and implied threats will get them what they want in life.”

This professor has been advised, at more than one college, not to let students know where he lives, not to give out his home phone number and to keep his home phone number from being listed.

This is a very different academic world from the one in which I began teaching in 1962. Over the years, I saw it change before my eyes.

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