*sips tea* Indeed, Professor. Troubling indeed, isn’t it? The unwillingness to “engage ideas” — oh, what a perfectly smart phrase! Why, I think I might have even heard it a thousand times before. Oh and it IS so frustrating when students challenge our heavily researched and intellectually superior beliefs isn’t it? The audacity! The ignorance! The unwillingness to let us — the elite, the all-knowing, the saviors of the mind — challenge their beliefs, and the sheer stupidity of ever thinking they should challenge ours! Alas, I fear I have lost hope in them. Why, it’s as if the instructors themselves don’t model this behavior of only “engaging in the ‘correct’ discourse” and thus they believe (foolishly) they may be the only correct ones as well! Fools! The end of academia as we know it! The end of critical thinking! Now, would you like to take a turn about the room with me, Professor? *sips tea*