While I was a psychology graduate student during the mid- 1980s at a private university in New York, I had one professor who used my tuition funds to spew anti-Reagan tirades during class time, including the falsity that Reagan was the dumbest president this country ever had.

Like good, little, trained monkeys, many of my classmates jumped on the bandwagon. After completing my doctorate, I went on to practice rather than to preach – I mean, teach.

In my view, many in the world of academia represent the most highly educated, highly intellectual, elitist fools who never outgrew their adolescence that this country has ever seen.

Robert Semel, Brooklyn