re: #31 EPR-radar

Because all the faculty members I know and have learned from have dragged their political views into the classroom and made it an issue.

Yep.

Happened all the time in my materials science classes. It was hard to learn the thermodynamics over it!

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On a more serious note, the only faculty member I could say I knew the political leanings of with confidence was my Ph.D. advisor, and that was something I learned over the course of 6 years. And we never really talked about it despite being of a similar general mindset. Because it wasn’t relevant to what I was there for.

I did, however, learn a shit ton about critical thinking and asking questions, which is more than anything what higher education is supposed to promote, regardless of political viewpoints.