A center-left Yale student lamented the politicization of his English class in an op-ed Sunday, highlighting how his professor asked which Shakespeare villain was most like President Donald Trump the morning after the election. <\/p>\n
Yale senior Finnegan Schick, whopublished thearticleOn the Intrusion of National Politics in College Classrooms, expressed frustration that despite the fact Trump has been in office for more than half a year now, his professors show no signs of putting their political digressions on hold, reflecting a troubling trend: the growing partisanship of higher education. <\/p>\n
The rise of Trump has accelerated the Ivory Towers politicization, allowing the campus Left to condemn dissenting students and faculty with new vigor, Schick said, adding that a fall survey of over 2,000 Yale studentsfound that 95 percent of conservative respondents felt the school doesnt toleratetheir opinions. <\/p>\n
Schick acknowledged that he iscenter-left politically and voted for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,but said reading shouldnt require an Im With Her sticker and a Washington Post subscription. <\/p>\n
Trump is a demagogue, American society is doomed, and English literature is our refuge, is always the message from my classes, wrote Schick. He said that while lefty professors thinkits their duty to promote their vision of the political good, students are becoming afraidthey will suffer academically for their views. <\/p>\n
Universities have become hotbeds of anti-Trump resistance, according to Schick, and the result will be ageneration of adults whose liberal arts educations were hijacked by political debate. <\/p>\n
Schick wrote that Literature is ideally a way of broadening our social imaginations, so if we only read authors to inform modern phenomena, we might as welldismiss the literarycannon also. <\/p>\n
He doesnt want to takepolitics completely out of the classroom, but saysprofessors must recognize the line between timeless political insights and rank partisanship. <\/p>\n
The student notedthat political homogenization of academia since the 1990s has been welldocumented, and referencedarecently published abookon the dearth of conservatives in academia bypolitical scientists Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn. <\/p>\n
Finn isnt saying politics in the classroom=bad. Hes criticizing the tendency of political digressions to displace literary analysis, said Yale student and staff columnist ofYale Newson Twitter. <\/p>\n
Yale didnt respond to TheDCNFs request for comment in time for publication. <\/p>\n
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