{"id":34771,"date":"2018-01-06T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34771"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:49:17","slug":"qotd-the-teacher-as-social-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/06\/qotd-the-teacher-as-social-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The teacher as social worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here we come to one of the most pernicious aspects of identity politics as it reshaped the American university \u2014 the confusion of teaching with social work. The issue of improper advocacy in the classroom has never been adequately addressed by the profession. Teaching and research must strive to remain objective and detached. The teacher as an individual citizen may and should have strong political convictions and activities outside the classroom, but in the classroom, he or she should never take ideological positions without at the same time frankly acknowledging them as opinion to the students and emphasizing that all students are completely free to hold and express their own opinions on any issue, no matter how contested, from abortion, homosexuality, and global warming to the existence of God or the veracity of Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution. Unfortunately, because of the failure of American colleges and universities to seek and support ideological diversity on their campuses, the humanities faculties have trended so far toward liberal Democrats (among whom I number myself) that they often seem naively unaware that any other beliefs are possible or credible.<\/p>\n<p>Camille Paglia, <a href=\"http:\/\/heatst.com\/culture-wars\/camille-paglia-free-speech-modern-campus-protest\/?mod=sm_tw_post\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Modern Campus Has Declared War on Free Speech&#8221;, <em>Heat Street<\/em><\/a>, 2016-05-09.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we come to one of the most pernicious aspects of identity politics as it reshaped the American university \u2014 the confusion of teaching with social work. The issue of improper advocacy in the classroom has never been adequately addressed by the profession. Teaching and research must strive to remain objective and detached. The teacher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[1288,622,1020,764],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-camillepaglia","tag-ideology","tag-progressives","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-92P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34772,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions\/34772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}