Sunday, August 20, 2006

Education Trends

''In a flash, they were gone'' teaching method.
Franck Salameh taught Arabic at Middlebury College's Arabic Summer School, and writes about the silent war being waged by  increasingly antisemitic, prosthelytizing academics. Here's a clip:

A former student of mine who recently took a summer Arabic course at Georgetown University relates that one of her professors, an otherwise excellent language instructor, refused to allow the word "Israel" to be uttered in class. And his bigotry wasn't confined to the Jewish state: during a class discussion on nationalism, my former student argued that "many Lebanese did not think of themselves as Arabs." The instructor's response: "while they might say that, it's just politics, because all Lebanese people know on the inside that they are indeed Arabs.

Arab Nationalism Run Rampant at Middlebury - Yahoo! News

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

...refused to allow the word "Israel" to be uttered in class

Okay, fine. Try these instead: "The Promised Land" and "Eretz Yisrael".

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