Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.

Stanley Eugene Fish (born April 19 1938 in Providence Rhode Island) is an American literary theorist legal scholar academic and public intellectual. from Yale University in 1960. The conservative R.

He is often associated with postmodernism at times to his irritation as he describes himself as an anti-foundationalist. Fish has also taught at the Cardozo School of Law University of California Berkeley Johns Hopkins University The University of Pennsylvania Yale Law Columbia University The John Marshall Law School and Duke University.