Professor pushing politics. Report or leave it alone?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In an MBA program, and as you likely know, businesspeople skew conservative. Fine. I’m taking an economics class, and my professor uses every opportunity to denigrate economic controls, government regulations, etc. He’s described Bernie Sanders as sympathetic to assassins and dismissed the Green New Deal as absurd (which it may be), and of AOC he questions the “wisdom and foresight” of a “29-year-old whose previous work experience was bartending.”

I think it’s one thing to foster healthy, fair debate on issues, but he’s so anti-liberal and frankly anti-government it’s becoming difficult to focus on the lessons. Should I talk to him? Talk to administration? Or just leave it alone?

You should do a social work degree instead.

Facts, metrics and business don't seem to agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, OP should not be in a professional grad school. The point of grad school is to get rid of the liberal attitude adopted at the undergrad stage and learn something that might be useful to future employers. At this point in the education world, you should welcome differing viewpoints and have the sophistication to know whether or not you agree. Your future employer won't care about your politics. They will just want to know what theories you have been educated about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, OP should not be in a professional grad school. The point of grad school is to get rid of the liberal attitude adopted at the undergrad stage and learn something that might be useful to future employers. At this point in the education world, you should welcome differing viewpoints and have the sophistication to know whether or not you agree. Your future employer won't care about your politics. They will just want to know what theories you have been educated about.

+1

[Anonymous]

Everyone has an opinion, and anyone who speaks publicly is likely to insert their opinion. I agree that it’s unprofessional, but it’s common. Be careful not to find fault in the insertion of opinion only when it differs from your own opinion. Anyone old enough to attend college should be old enough to have their own opinion and not be easily swayed by a ranting professor.

[Anonymous]

Avoid George Mason

[Anonymous]

Whenever I hear a college student report to authority in complaint what a professor teaches in classroom, I know I need to stay away from that student like plague. Only someone disregarding basic human ethics would do that.

If you do not like what a professor teaches, don't take his class. Walk away.

By the way, it's in the news that some college students, and even high school students, now in China report to the government when some teachers made anti-government comments and the teachers are fired because of it. Students are encouraged by the government to do so. So sick.