<HTML>Actually, Don, I objected to your portrayal of universities as places of indoctrination (i.e., producing "clones of the their teachers"). There is a difference between indoctrination and shutting the door on teaching students raw belief systems unsupported by any discernible evidence.
"Alternative" views (astrology, UFOs, psychic powers, Atlantis, alien abductions, etc) are not taught at universities because they have not been verified by evidence and have failed repeated attempts to test them. Sometimes, as with astrology, the testing has been going for centuries. This does not make universities some sort of closed-minded inquisition bent on destroying free inquiry. It makes them sensible.
In your view, is there any subject that we should not teach students? Should we have departments of Holocaust Denial?
What's your beef with universities anyway?
Garrett</HTML>
