I am relishing Excuse Me, Professor, for its message, purpose, and content. Every prospective college student needs this book, to prepare him or her for campus encounters ahead.
The book's message acknowledges and challenges the student-professor relationship, as well as the ivory tower infallibility of professors. The message students receive from many professors and the structure of class is clear: I know, you don't. I lecture, you listen. I teach, you learn. I facilitate the dialog and direct all discussion to my agenda and syllabus. It's predominately one way, and one set of ideas, to one inculcating goal: the professor's mindset and sensibilities. Occasionally the students raise points, and that happens more often among high quality professors. The book's message is clear: students, speak up! Just because your beloved professor is a misguided progressive purveying myths, that doesn't mean you have to silently listen and accept the myths they maintain.
The purpose is to equip students with the facts, evidence, and well researched arguments they can eloquently make in defense of cores ideas critical to America's founding principles: limited and small government, individual liberty and choice, the sanctity of private property and contract, and a robust free market economy. Over a span of fourteen years I have spent seven years as a student on three college campuses, having earned three degrees. Also in private industry, I have the opportunity to interact with professors from research universities. Encounters on campus or through industry are at times bewildering and disorienting, as the mythical world of progressivism in academia often differs widely from the commercial world of customer value and satisfaction, product or service innovation at speed in competitive markets, and results orientation. Reading the essays in this book have helped me understand my bewilderment, and will equip students with tools and information they need to prepare themselves for the real world, not the mythical one often envisioned and opined on campus.
Fifty-two essays make up the content, each well written, argued, and researched with notes, citations, and additional recommended readings. The essays are oriented to the many myths maintained, such as "Big Government is a Check on Big Business (#19)", "Profit is Evidence of Suspicious Behavior (#45)", "The Great Depression Was a Calamity of Unfettered Capitalism, and FDR Was Elected in 1932 on a Progressive Platform to Plan the Economy (#33 to #32)", "All We Need is the Right People to Run the Government (#17)", and the icing on the cake and my personal favorite, "Progressives Have Good Intentions, So What Else Matters?" (#52). Each essay is three to five pages long, and ends with a quick, hard-hitting summary in a bulleted list. As a convenient trade paperback with a great table of contents and index, it can easily be carried in a student's backpack. Then, an essay or two quickly consumed and argued before the next class with an honorable yet misguided progressive professor who is purveying a myth. For social media savvy readers, posters and tweeters looking for online resources for online discussion, you won't be disappointed. Many of the essays have been published, vetted and improved from an online article series called "Cliches of Progressivism", published by the Foundation for Economic Education in collaboration with the Young America's Foundation (see http://www.yaf.org/IntroductionToClichesOfProgressivismSeries.aspx ).
Enjoy and devour this wonderful read, gift it as a gift often to rising college freshmen, and save it as an invaluable resource for your own myth busting whenever you find progressives perpetuating these myths on the public square, whether it be real or cyber.
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Our Academy only teaches students to parrot the beliefs of their professors to get a good grade and move on to the rat race of .
After 50 years teaching philosophy with a specialty in Critical Thinking and Writing I can attest that Lawrence Reed's EXCUSE ME, PROFESSOR is both valid and sound. He documents the strange failing of public and private higher education in most classrooms over my teaching career, Our Academy only teaches students to parrot the beliefs of their professors to get a good grade and move on to the rat race of a career. Our Academy fails to educate our students, for the most part, in the skills of questioning the assumptions of their professors to say nothing of questioning their own assumptions. Every philosophy professor who meets a new class today knows, with a high degree of probability, that most of the students in that class will be rabid atheists and unquestioningly liberal-progressive. This confirms what William F. Buckley, Jr. quipped back in the '80s,“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” I highly recommend this book if you are sending any child of yours to our Academy today.
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- Mr ShinealightReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2018
Perfect for informing your pub debates.
- Shawn WhatleyReviewed in Canada on January 15, 2017
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- KhusravReviewed in Canada on May 2, 2020
Excellent essays that touch on various topics.
- Xenon3Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2021
Yawn. All about small government.
