Truth on trial robert carlson

Along the way we meet jealous faculty members, grossly mis-informed church leaders pawns, really, of the former , and a University administration so lacking in common sense as to appear lobotomized.

What makes this account so sickening is the continual knowledge that the horrible events portrayed were not some adolescent nightmare, but were actual FACTS--to wit: that three academic colleagues were in fact, slowly and messily devoured by the gorgon of political correctness.

Despite the repulsion I felt, I was simply unable to put this riveting book down. Appropriately, Carlson frames the development of the Integrated Humanities Program with the social upheaval of the day, specifically the Vietnam War, campus unrest, the riots in Watts, and the general disintegration of society a dissolution that, sadly, continues unabated. In doing so, he cuts to one of the roots of higher education's problems--then and now.

It was exactly this sort of sanitized homogenized education the Integrated Humanities Program was designed to offset. The program was conceived, administered and taught by three distinguished senior professors at KU, Drs. Each possessing different skills, backgrounds and strengths, the three worked as if one, or in the words of IHP student Scott Bloch,.

In addition to reading and discussing at length such literary masterpieces, students in the program memorized poetry and engaged in Socratic conversation. The IHP students also had the opportunity to "live" Platonic ideals through regular star-gazing sessions, the study of Latin, and annual events such as the fair and the waltz.

Students in this remarkable program were receiving an education in the very best sense of the word, and not mindless vocational training. If Carlson cannot point to a single event that caused the demise of the IHP, it is because there was no singular cause, save its existence in the first place.

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Preview — Truth in Trial by Robert K. In Truth on Trial Robert Carlson admirably outlines the situation prevalent in our colleges and universities, and the devious ways in which any view which is not 'politically correct' is persecuted. Carlson uses his experiences in the Integrated Humanities Program at the University of Kansas to support his views.

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