I don’t think “higher education is typically liberal leaning” but rather as you learn more about the world, and how to think critically about it, you realize that most conservative ideals are not in the best interest of most people. They are actually in the interest of those already in power and/or with wealth.
It’s kind of like that saying that nothing removes prejudice faster than travel (or something like that, I’m paraphrasing from memory here).
Also, the whole “liberal indoctrination” of colleges is only a half truth. Do people who go to college come out more liberal? Yes, but not because the colleges are indoctrinating them.
Let’s say you’ve lived in a small town all your life. Everyone you know is pretty much the same. You know very few people who are different so stereotypes abound.
Then you go to college. You start meeting some of the people you had stereotypes of. They don’t match what you thought “those people” would be like. Your stereotypes break down and instead of thinking of them as some scary Other, you see them as actual people.
When you go home, everyone back at home hasn’t met the people you did. They make the bigoted, stereotype filled comments that you once would have echoed. Except, now those comments have faces attached to them for you so you object to them.
To your parents and the people in your small town, you’ve changed. They blame the college for “indoctrinating” you, but in reality it is just that you were exposed to different people and viewpoints.
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I don’t think “higher education is typically liberal leaning” but rather as you learn more about the world, and how to think critically about it, you realize that most conservative ideals are not in the best interest of most people. They are actually in the interest of those already in power and/or with wealth.
It’s kind of like that saying that nothing removes prejudice faster than travel (or something like that, I’m paraphrasing from memory here).
Also, the whole “liberal indoctrination” of colleges is only a half truth. Do people who go to college come out more liberal? Yes, but not because the colleges are indoctrinating them.
Let’s say you’ve lived in a small town all your life. Everyone you know is pretty much the same. You know very few people who are different so stereotypes abound.
Then you go to college. You start meeting some of the people you had stereotypes of. They don’t match what you thought “those people” would be like. Your stereotypes break down and instead of thinking of them as some scary Other, you see them as actual people.
When you go home, everyone back at home hasn’t met the people you did. They make the bigoted, stereotype filled comments that you once would have echoed. Except, now those comments have faces attached to them for you so you object to them.
To your parents and the people in your small town, you’ve changed. They blame the college for “indoctrinating” you, but in reality it is just that you were exposed to different people and viewpoints.