Michael J. Fox talks about campaign/Rush

Agreed, TPS. But on more then a few college campuses the attitudes are very slanted and pointed to a direction where if someone doenst think the majority of the classroom and may have stark differences with the person teaching the class, the guy who disagrees is seen as sort of an oucast of not exactly seen as one of the majority opinion that is agreed upon. I think thats a fault of many places of learning in this country, sure they challenge you but their thinking is well lets put it this way, flawed. Many college professors when they give a lecture for a class tell what they can give you and hos it may be relevent to their way of thinking and that thiking could be seen as flawed or subject to debate. But if craft the argument a certain way, you can convince them its the right one even when its not some of the time.

Not bashing RebSaint here becuase he is a professor in a college at LSU but if he were here he would say that if you have a class to teach in History for example becuase thats his trade and profession, it would take much longer and much more depth to tell the whole story behind the Recontrcution of the South after the Civil War but it has to be done in fairlt quick manner becuase of time constraints in a semester, so you have to choose what you think is more importat and less important, well what yu may choose to be less important may not be that way or the way it was supposed to be in how it realy happened.
Because History is complicated and nots something thats piecemeal, you have people who could see certain things in it that fit their wolrd view and well it leads them to develop a perconceived idea of history.

Reb is the history professor here and I will respect his authority on what he is talking about, but I have noticed that in how some professors pick and choose their ideas of what implies in a course and what doesnt