professor's worldview called into doubt by mind-numbed students
By MARK C. TAYLOR
The task of thinking and teaching, especially in an age of emergent fundamentalisms, is to cultivate a faith in doubt that calls into question every certainty.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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