Now, I have no bone to pick with the idea of general education requirements. Personally, I applaud the desire to ensure that all students, regardless of academic concentration, have a basic understanding of mathematics, science, history, logic, philosophy, and economics. IN fact, many of my favourite classes thus far have been general ed. classes.

However, I do take issue with long lists of requirements that take three years to finish, cost huge amounts of money, and most of which exist primarily to imprint the school's owners' worldview on the students. Over here these are referred to as the CORE classes, and you can't graduate without passing them.

Case in point: my aforementioned class CORE 300: "Values and Critical Thinking." Instead of logic or philosophy, we learn how to kiss the professor's behind and agree with everything she says.

I currently have a three page list of things that she has said that a) contradict known facts about the world; b) contradict what she said earlier; and c) are logically inconsistent. And that's just from the first class!