My dad was not a fan of Ivy League colleges. When teaching methods or ideas changed, he grumbled, “I don’t want hippies from Harvard wearing love beads telling me how to teach a class!” While I just rolled my eyes when he kvetched during my junior high school days, I learned later that he was using an ad hominem attack – criticizing or dehumanizing a person instead of criticizing an idea. In other words, he was arguing that the idea was bad because a person was “bad.”
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