Are college professors really that liberal?

Question

I hear a lot that colleges and universities indoctrinate the students with liberal ideology, because of the liberal professors. I just graduated from college, and very few of my professors ever talked about their politics, unless it was a class about the subject. I did get the feeling a lot of them were liberal, but I never felt like they were trying to change my point of view. I was just wondering what other people thought?

Answer 1

It would be a fair statement to say that the spectrum of opinion in the professoriate is well to the left of the spectrum of opinion of the populace as a whole. But that does not mean that all are ideological crusaders. Also, much of what one teaches one has no particularly strongly held view about. As well, most of us are genuinely delighted to hear a student express an intelligent, independently derived opinion. There is very little satisfaction to be had from hearing ones own opinion repeated back; for that buy a tape recorder.

Answer 2

I believe this trend exists because those who exist in atmospheres of great intellectuality perceive matters from a social-conflict paradigm rather than a structural-functionalist perspective. Professors understand that the world is dramatically influenced by the larger stratum of society and the individual is just a puppet of this scheme. Conservatives are those inhibited by religious doctrines, who see the world incorrectly as a 'rags-to-riches' model, or those who tend to wanna stop the world's ills by proscribing freedoms, like abortion or drug use. So-called intelligentsia know that the conservative biased society in which one lives is fallible and that it does not suffice to explain everything.

Answer 3

Liberal people are very Intelligent, Conservatives are mostly uneducated, that's why almost all college professes are liberal.