In this interesting article, University professor Douglas Campbell provides an eyewitness view of the situation. He was recently required to take part in a program designed to make him a better teacher. The program disparaged reason and rationality. He writes that one of the required texts…
“tells us ‘to correct our excessive regard for the powers of intellect.’ [The author] goes on to attack all philosophies that insist on the primacy of the rational thought process, and he blames rational thought for totalitarianism, violence, and every social ill imaginable. Palmer tells us that we must put our feelings on at least an equal—preferably dominant—position to logic and rational thought processes. “Campbell gives several examples of experiences he has had with this kind of thinking at his institution. He concludes that “If Aristotle was right that ‘Man is a rational animal,’ it seems unlikely that these efforts to turn higher education into exercises in ideology can ultimately prevail.”
I hope he is right and that their attempt to eliminate reason meets with the same success as the State’s attempt to eliminate the imported fire ant. In any case, in attempting to eradicate reason, they are seeking to kill man himself.
In any case, this is where I stand:
A day may come when man fails, and the last man follows the rest of his race out of manishness, and becomes a beast like them. But this is not that day, and I am not that man.
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