Fish and Horowitz on Education
by Mr. Stanley Fish and Mr. David Horowitz are two writers that stand for education and the truth of it.
Mr. Horowitz created a document (The Academic bill of rights) that supposedly “efforts to protect student rights and intellectual diversity on campuses”. Mr. Fish opposes many of the “injustices” that are afflicted upon the students as not being “injustices” at all.
Mr. David Horowitz starts out in his chronicle “In Defense of Intellectual Diversity” that the bills purpose is to codify the tradition of “the almost 100-year-old tradition of academic freedom that the American Association of University Professors has established” and to “emphasize the value of “Intellectual diversity” also “to enumerate the rights of students to not be indoctrinated or otherwise assaulted by political propagandists in the classroom or any educational setting”. What Mr. Horowitz is saying is that he created the “Academic Bill of Rights” to insure the whole truth of education and not just the imbued half by a biased point of view.
Mr. Horowitz states that there are critics that have accused his bill of being “another right-wing plot” to stack faculties with political conservatives by imposing hiring quotas. Horowitz then goes on in the next paragraph to say “Nothing could be further from the truth. The actual intent of the Academic Bill of Rights is to remove partisan politics from the classroom. The bill that I’m proposing explicitly forbids political hiring or firing: “No faculty shall be hired or fired or denied promotion or tenure on the basis of his or her political or religious beliefs.” The bill thus protects all faculty members – left-leaning critics of the war in Iraq as well as right-leaning proponents of it, for example – from being penalized for their political beliefs”. By this he means that no one will be fired or hired due to their political partisanship because his bill prohibits that (it is also known as discrimination). My question for him on this topic is: How will “Intellectual Diversity” be achieved when these bias teachers remain in that place of teaching if they still think the same and have those bias opinions? How will you force them to change their way of thinking? You will have to fire them because that is an installment in their brain and way of think. You can’t take that away without taking away individuality and that sounds not only immoral but somewhat undemocratic.
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