It is official: I'm never taking another class from the School of Business again.

We were talking about Keynesian theory in class today, and my professor mentioned that Johnson was the first U.S. President to really implement Keynesian theories, so I asked him "Wasn't the New Deal Keynesian?" His response: "Well, you people like to think so, but FDR believed in a balanced budget and when he pushed it through in 1936, he led to another recession." I was thinking. "You people?" Me and who? It kind of annoyed me, am I overreacting? Oh, and is that true about FDR causing another recession?

Truth-be-told, WWII actually fixed it the most:(

the MIC that no politician can even discuss.

any school worth anything won't put up with professors who say things like that.

teachers are teaching our children to be liberal? Well, this prof is obviously a wingnut and to him liberals are not co-equal Americans, they are "you people".

So much for the myth that colleges teach students to be commies.

company rep about a month ago.

It is intended as a derogatory phrase, only used by conservatives, and it means "independent thinking human being" as opposed to the norm of "mindless brainwashed consumer".
;)

Professors will represent a spectrum of viewpoints. The good ones will teach their viewpoints if for no other reason than to encourage debate and argument. Part of what any college level class should be about is learning to debate and defend viewpoints.

come off

my problem here, is with his "you people" comment. We all know that implies someone who is different or wrong in some way.

stupid.

you wouldnt have an issue there.

so what, he said you people. argue and win. or argue, lose and learn.

college

:rofl:

As an aside, when I was in college back when dinosaurs ruled, it was a newly founded university and there was a lot of construction of buildings on campus. When they FINALLY opened the business school and put it on the aerial maps of the campus, it looked EXACTLY LIKE A TOILET! I'm talking EXACTLY! It had a tank and a hex shaped bowl with a little connecting area. Me and my commie friends busted a gut laughing about that one.

That was a perfect expression of my thoughts on the business school.

However, a good professor will challenge a student, even if he or she agrees with the student. My goal when I'm teaching is to ask a lot of questions and let the answers come by themselves. So I don't think a professor challenging an assertion about Keyneisian economics and the New Deal is inherently wrong (and it's pretty obvious you're right by any objective standard), but the way the challenge happened was.

If he had said "Well, some people think that,but what really happened" or something along those lines, I would have been fine. "You people" however implies that the person in question is not as good as the "other people."

I get the sense that your professor has a bit of an agenda. Which in an odd way, might help you.

Your goal is to (a) get good grades, and (b) learn as much as you can.

Of course what college should teach you is not necessarily something specific, but HOW to learn on your own. How to compare things, make your own decisions.

So let's say that this professor is NOT trying to teach you to think on your own, but has an agenda and is trying to teach you a specific way to think about this.

Let him think he's doing that. Tell him what he wants to hear.

This may sound bad. But if you know you are doing both (a) and (b) above, you win. Take what he says and read up on it. If you disagree fine, if you know that his agenda will cost you grades, don't disagree. Tell him what he wants to hear. Take the grade, AND more importantly, take the knowledge you gain.

He thinks HE won, you KNOW he did not. Its a win win solution ... in which YOU win, and he only thinks he won.

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meant by that. He would have backed down right away. Don't be frustrated. Insist on an explanation. Make him recognize his error in using a belittling term. What can you lose?

I went all the way through college challenging professors when they said stupid things. Graduated with a 3.85 GPA. I never backed down on that kind of crap.

FDR never accepted Keynesianism, he was at heart anti-deficit until the day he died, hence the idiotic decision to cut spending in 1937, which lead to a recession. We did not get out of the Depression until WW2 forced the government to spend like crazy.

I would go talk to a counselor before you leave school.