Why does education turn people into Liberals?

Question

And why do the ignorant hate the educated?

ignorant = Republican

Answer 1

Education requires an open mind for different viewpoints to be examined so one can make a choice as to how they want to beleive. Further, it allows for less-popular viewpoints to be addressed and considered. Certain people consider open-mindedness to be a wholely liberal state of being. The ignorant hate the educated because they do not understand them and they think that they wasted their time.

One other point that I would like to make. There are educated conservatives. You just don't hear from them because the educated conservatives don't attack liberals. The people today that call themselves conservatives and aspouse the beleifs of the Neo-Conservative Republicans that run the Party are NOT CONSERVATIVE. These people are just on the band wagon.

Part of being conservative is to refrain from making broad generalizations about people that disagree with your viewpoint. In my opinion this doesn't appear to be the motus operandi of the Neo-Conservative movement.

Answer 2

There are educated liberals and educated conservatives. Unfortunately, there also are educated morons. No body can function without a right and left side. The two sides balance each other and accomplish a unified task. Educated morons don't seem to understand this concept.
I have never seen this country so polarized before. The relationship between right and left views should be one of respect and compromise, not bickering. Moral issues, such as abortion and gay rights, need to be removed from the political stage. Those are not points for politicians to deal with. They are issues that private parties like the ACLU need to address. These hot-button issues have fragmented the Democratic party and given the GOP a free hand in the political front. Any time a single minded group controls a government, it is no longer a representative government of all the people.
Your question and the nature of it seems to indicate you are no better than the people you are condemning.

Answer 3

A massage to both Lib and con:

For the last 56 years the Palestinian Refugees are living in a United Nation Refugee Camps waiting for UN to implement the UN Security Council resolutions.

For the last 56 years Israel conducts collective punishment and state terror against the Palestinian Refugees.
Reading the Revolutionary Education Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and compare it what is going on in Israel VS Palestine issue.
We find that education played a major role in the Palestinian demand for freedom, self-determination and liberation from a forced occupation MR. Jefferson said that the liberation of the slaves can be achieved by education when the slaves get educated they will ask for their natural rights as human being
All
Men are created equal by God
Was the key to African American liberation from slavery?
The two States solution is the key to Palestinian liberation which go back to 1947 Security Council resolution called 181 or the partition plan which createdboth states.In the USA education was needed on both sides the Slaves and Masters.
In the Holy Land education is needed on the Israeli side where the Israeli must understand that the land is for the two people equally where most Israelis are not native ppl of the holyland.
A viable Palestine means a viable Israel and no viable Palestine means no viable Israel and wars go on between the two people.
No one could NOT change his mind unless he has no mind.
Occupying other people by force is losing policy in the past and now and has no future.

Answer 4

Depends on what you mean by educated? Just because you have a degree in something doesn't mean you are so called educated. Can you fix your own car? I bet your college educations didn't teach you that. How about constructing a house....nope probably not either. Can you describe how your computer works in detail? Can you describe how a nuclear reactor works, how about a laser? What is the GDP of Brunei? Educated is in the eye of the beholder, not what you think. There are educated people on both sides of the political spectrum..it's the ones who think they have all the answers that you need to worry about.

Oh yeah, and I am a moderate Republican, and I can think for myself....I will do the research necessary to see the real story. I see a lot of ignorant Democrats who can't see the failures of their own programs...such as Social Security and Welfare

Answer 5

It doesn't, although the liberals running education try desperately to create that effect. Trouble is, the students run smack into the real world once they're away from school and, at that point, most see the nonsense they were subjected to for what it is.

I don't believe for a minute that the "ignorant hate the educated". If this has been your personal experience, it certainly hasn't been mine. BTW, I assume that by "ignorant" you mean people who are less educated (than you)? Try to be more specific in your characterizations.

Answer 6

I think it is the other way around. I think the educated hate the "uneducated". They can't comprehend that there are people who don't need I piece of paper to give them worth. Some "educated" people....elitest....place value on people based solely on their education. This is both misguided and wrong.

I went to college and have my degree, but some of the wisest people I have known have not been groomed by a university, but rather from hard work and life experience.

College is a great place to grow, but it comes at a time in many people lives when they are vulnerable to the influence of others. People who end up teaching are often those most likely to look down upon those people who don't choose university. They also want to justify their behavior.... all those things that tend to be socially questionable.... adultery, drug use, homosexuality....so they teach that NOTHING is wrong because they don't want anyone challenging their pet "vice". They also tend to have a highly inflated vision of their own importance.

So, this is why it is important that those teaching in college be held to a standard higher than the average citizen. They do help mold young minds and they are warping them.

Answer 7

Education does not turn all people into liberals. Education does provide new ways to observe and interpet people, ideas and events.

Ignorant people may hate and envy the educated because an education is the stepping stone to achieving financial success, security and respect from one's peers.

Answer 8

Education turns you into whatever you were before education, except now you have a rational basis for it and can defend your world view.

The ignorant hate the educated largely because the educated lord it over them. Just because you're educated doesn't mean you're smart, it just means you know more facts. But educated people sometimes put the un-educated down because they don't know these facts -- as if it mattered.

Answer 9

That's because Liberals are usually smarter people. So if you're educated, you have a higher chance of being smart which may be being Liberal.

The ignorant are often the Republicans who hate the people who beat them, who have brains, who decided to make something of themselves.

Answer 10

Every smart person is not a liberal. People say education does that because it usually happens in college. And that is just because everyone tells college students to question everything they believe, so they do and try out different ideas and beliefs and there's other peole to come along and now they have liberal friends.