The Ivory Tower

As you can see from my screenname, I have entered the Ivory Tower, also known as higher education. A wise man taught me when I was still a senior in high school that moral relativism and “tolerance” reign supreme in these institutions.

Ah, tolerance. The virtue of agreeing with others whether they are right or wrong—unless, of course, they are following some sort of moral system. Then tolerance goes out the window.

But I digress.

In that class, I read Plato, Aristotle, Paul, C.S. Lewis, and many others. I read Nietzsche, and even Richard Dawkins. (It was hard for me to stomach those last two.) My teacher taught his class to think rationally, to argue well, and to create well informed opinions. I can honestly say that I learned more in that one semester then I learned in every other high school class I took. That is the knowledge I have used now that I am in the “real world” of the state’s largest public university. (In case you couldn’t guess, I did not attend a public high school.)

Now, my professors try to brainwash me, or at least unknowingly insult all I hold dear. I am only in my second semester of college, and I have already learned so much.

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”
--Ronald Reagan

In a literature class, I learned that the government should take control of wilderness and maintain it in order to keep it free from human interference.

In a chemistry class, I learned that global warming is, in fact, caused by humans. I never learned any evidence to prove that claim, but I am sure that it is there.

I have taken two Spanish classes, and both professors have made astounding new teachings about the Catholic Church.
FLS 202: The Catholic Church needs to allow women to be priests.
FLS 308: The Catholic Church needs a better view on contraception, because (apparently for 2000 years) it has been leaving women with no options.

Here is a quote from my history teacher: “Capitalism is responsible for the meanness—everything that’s wrong [with society].”
I could write an entire blog about that one quote.

In a class called “Religion and Conflict” I have learned that Islam is the true religion, and the land of Israel does belong to the Muslims. (I’m not saying that it doesn’t, but shouldn’t I at least be granted the chance to learn about other religions’ claims to the land?)

In Communications classes, I have learned lots of interesting facts. Did you know, for example, that gender and biological sex are two different things? In this university setting, a person may choose his gender and it doesn’t even have to be based on biological sex! In addition, gender is something created by society. We should be creating it for ourselves.
Note by my high school philosophy teacher mentioned above: do the professors know that academic credentials are also something that is created by society? Maybe those don’t exist either….

So far, the only classes in which the teacher has tried to teach me “so much that isn’t so” are calculus and English. The saddest thing is that every new topic I have learned in college and mentioned above has been on a test or the topic of a paper. So you see, I am graded on how well I can adopt or appear to be adopting the opinions of my liberal professors.

I’d love to continue, but I think I should read some C.S. Lewis before I head off to socialism….I mean history class.