When I was teaching, I always clearly told the students my ideological bias on the first day of class and reminded them again whenever we got into normative discussions.
When I was teaching, I always clearly told the students my ideological bias on the first day of class and reminded them again whenever we got into normative discussions.
My students never understood my ideological bias. Roughly, I'm a philosophical anarchist, who is in practice a strong libertarian with a lot of respect for tradition, and I have a hillbilly background. A prof once described me as "A kind of heavily armed and incredibly dangerous Amishman."
Most of mine probably didn't understand either. (Rules without government, how can that be?) Indeed by the end of class I often got comments that they thought I was a (modern) liberal Democrat. 🤷
When I was teaching, I always clearly told the students my ideological bias on the first day of class and reminded them again whenever we got into normative discussions.
My students never understood my ideological bias. Roughly, I'm a philosophical anarchist, who is in practice a strong libertarian with a lot of respect for tradition, and I have a hillbilly background. A prof once described me as "A kind of heavily armed and incredibly dangerous Amishman."
Most of mine probably didn't understand either. (Rules without government, how can that be?) Indeed by the end of class I often got comments that they thought I was a (modern) liberal Democrat. 🤷
But I also did attract a bunch of libertarian oriented students