do they even know how hard it is to grow tomatos?
This is a university, not a place where you can ask questions!
he is not wrong tho
Universities are the most dogmatic places Iāve ever been. Iāve studied politics for 3 years and made myself an enemy of every teacher that didnāt taught us something relating to history.
Iāve had my grades lowered because I disagreed with Kantian philosophy. Iāve had my grades lowered because I disagree with Keynes on economics. Iāve had my grades lowered because Iāve dared being pro nuclear energy rather than solar.
Universities are the new cathedral and teachers are the new vicars of whatever the status quo is.
I would say itās more related to studying politics than the uni itself
I loled with the āSILENCE!ā scene 
I donāt know, or Iām not fully sure. Iāve had friends that studied economics, friends that studied engineering and my GF studied medicineā¦ to become a veterinarian. (Yeah, she knows what I do, sheās from eastern Europe, hating animals is kind of the basis for them there).
Pretty much politics invaded universities and even my friends had the same experience. In economics, well Iād have to make a very long and political discourse about migration and the decreasing wages but Iād rather not bring politics in here.
In engineering (public engineering, building roads, bridges, floodplains) pretty much you have to like the style they present you rather than using the same techniques to produce something else. Letās say they give you 20 bricks and tell you to build a wall. If you place the bricks vertically to build a taller wall rather than horizontally youāll get targeted, but thatās what Iāve been told so take that with a grain of salt.
As for my GF, she just has to repeat all sheās being taught and nothing else.
Bad example because the surface area of a virtual brick is smaller, thus itās less stable
I get your point tho
As someone who has a personal grudge against the educational system, I kinda relate to this.
I remember as a kid, because of the way they taught us about drugs, I got the impression that marijuana, crack, and heroin were pretty much as dangerous as each other.
Well, while I was thinking about that I remembered what he told me when the Notre Dame burnt. Back then there was this huge discussion about building a garden on top of the cathedral, building a minaret or rebuilding it like it was before.
The teachers were all in line with the idea of rebuilding the ceiling with glass and steel rather than stone. Thatās what he told me though and I fully believe it to be possible since teachers here in Italy are pretty much bending backwards to fit in with the new status quo that comes from america. Yeah, american university culture is very dominant here in Italy.
Ohhh I remember that one
Heresy
Impossible
Unspeakable
Heresy
āThis is a university, not a place where you ask questions!ā
If you donāt ask questions at university, then where do you ask them.
Nice comic.
I mean when I was at university the professors liked to discuss many things pertinent to the course. Might just be my personal experience though.
Depends.
If you ask questions about a certain subject itās OK.
If you question the subject then it is no longer OK.
Iāll give you an example. In Kantian philosophy there are a few moral imperatives, things YOU ARE FORCED to follow.
One such imperatives is that āthe King (state) can do whatever he wants and the citizens (subjects) have to endure the Kingās wishes.ā Paraphrasing of course.
Thus if the King choses to take away your rights or property you have to obey his will.
In my opinion it is bloody dangerous to teach future politicians that the state should have absolute power and everyone should just obey its will. Unfortunately the teacher disagreed with me and I had to take the exam 3 times because I was āthe short haired anti-Kantian smart-assā.
It was the same when I questioned letting people to fall into poverty in order to improve the quality of life for the middle higher class and so forth.
Iām not going to disagree the professor sounds like a problematic individual. Certainly seems like someone whoās lost his desire to learn, or maybe he never had it to begin with.
Unfortunately thatās the whole institute. The only teachers that arenāt like that are the history teachers which seem to be the only ones that enjoy teaching. Sorry in advance. I shouldnāt bring politics here and Iām going to refrain from doing it in the future. It just happened that politics and the question of teacher doing a good job is intertwined in my case.
All the other teachers, especially the ārights and lawsā subjects are obsessed with the state.
International rights: the states are absolute and if they decide to do something the individual cannot/mustnāt try to stop them. For example, the war in Iraq. If you were against state intervention tough luck. Also, every state should give up itās sovereignty to international, unelected bureaucrats like the EU and UN.
Private rights: you have them because the state kindly allowed you to. Pray to the state to keep them.
Public rights: everything should be monitored by the state because citizens are sheep. Parliamentarians are perfect and should never been criticised.
Hmmā¦ kind of reminds me of a certain time in recent history where a certain state HAD absolute power.
I reckon many of your teachers are 68āers/boomers?
The generation that rebelled in their youth only to become 10 x more authoritarian once they got in seats of power.
That being said, I like the professor in this picture. His intention is pure enough, the extermination of the fluffy plague.