Why do people say that a college education makes you more liberal?

Question

I am done with college and I am 100 times more conservative.

Answer 1

Because educated people learn about history, science and things that allow them to see the world is more complicated than the narrow simplistic view of the blissfully ignorant.

Answer 2

What people say does not always make it true. There are no statistics to show that college people are more liberal than those who don't go to college. The liberal college professor is a myth. There are liberal and conservative professors. It is up to the student to think for himself and decide for himself what the truth is. It is sad that so many conservatives have so little faith in the American people that they think they can be brainwashed by liberal professors. If we can't be brainswashed by the conservative press, why would we listen to liberal professors.

Answer 3

Because Teens who are idealistic to begin with, go off to college and find lots of influence by liberal educators and liberal institutions, who are happy to feed their idealism with liberal ideas and values. So some of it sticks! What a surprise! Being smart and educated doesn't make you a liberal. Being taught by liberals in a liberal institution does. Thankfully, after years in the real world after college, many of them have a better take on reality, and eventually swing toward the middle or the right.

Answer 4

Generally when people are young, they are still impressionable. You generally start college right after a period in your life where a large number of teenagers feel a need to rebel against authority, namely their parents. When you are younger, you generally also think you can change the world. Generally speaking, when you combine impressionalbe minds, a need to rebel, a desire to change the world, and a bunch of teachers in a community that is typically more liberal than conservative, along with a very free and open social experience, and lots of kids end up leaving college as very liberal.

Now, the other side of this picture is that generally you then get a job, start paying your own bill instead of mommy and daddy, see how much taxes suck, and slowly start voting for more conservative candidates, b/c they are generally Republicans and generally lower your taxes, where as liberal candidates, almost exclusively democrats, tend to raise your taxes.

Answer 5

That is fine, however the FACT is that more liberals have finished college than conservatives.

Why do you use the word Liberal, when you should be smart enough to know that most Democrats are not!

Guess you skipped school that day. No wonder you are a conservative, by your own definition, and was from the start!

Answer 6

It can if it is real education where they teach you how to think, argue, debate and have insight rather than the current vogue for learning rote 'facts.' Education should enlighten at least a fair percentage of closed minds leading to a tendency to be more liberal at least while young. The Nazis used the rote 'facts' parrot style training to achieve precisely the opposite effect(s) of true education and many American institutions use similar techniques so it is hardly surprising that even young men can be induced to desire that which makes them feel secure, even the jackboot.

Answer 7

I don't say that a college education makes you more liberal or less liberal. Therefore, not ALL people say that. Personally, I really don't care how liberal you are. Politics is boring and for people with little more to do than read about it and watch programs about it on TV.

Answer 8

It depends on the College, you attend, most are Home to
The Most Liberal Professors, known to man.

Answer 9

Your college experience may make you think in less rigid ways, become more tolerant, see the big picture etc. I guess other experiences might solidify a different opinion. It depends on what kind of college, your major, your instructors teaching, your involvements, and what other experiences you've had in life.

Answer 10

Then you are to be commended. You need to market and sell your secret. 4 years in college generally makes young people more Liberal. Then they start paying taxes and the tide changes.

Answer 11

The vast majority of people who receive college degrees in non-science/math fields are more liberal. Furthermore, the more education one has, the more likely they are to be liberal. It's not an opinion, simply a fact of political science.