Why is higher education stigmatized by the right as "liberal propaganda"???

Question

Do the globalization advocates benefit from a dumber america?

Answer 1

Because higher education almost invariably produces a liberal.

Answer 2

The more educated you are, the more left you lean. Many Reps/Cons like to label anything left of their right wing agenda as "liberal". That way they can excuse any reason or facts because it's all just "propaganda". The right, generally speaking, relys on ignorance and diversion. Most people that support the rights agenda are misinformed. These are the same people who are unaware of the countrys debt, unaware of the reasons we want to limit pollution, unaware of what evolution actually means, unaware of just about everything, except their parties agenda.

It helps to know both sides of the story before making your opinion, but if you're brain washed into not believing anything that comes from anybody but Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc., you will never be informed enough to make a rational decision.

Hell, there is still people that believe Saddam orchestrated 9/11, yet even Bush has concluded that Saddam had nothing to do with the attacks.

Answer 3

I'm a libertarian and I left college with my sanity and my ideology more or less intact, but I have to say in all honesty that there is a bias on college campuses. The economic departments of many schools usually teach economics from a capitalist perspective, which I like because I am a huge capitalist, but the history department (that was my major) was overwhelmingly dominated by the lefties. I'd say the political science department was mixed, and I found that surprising. One international relations professor confessed that she was a Marxist to the class and offered very poor refutations of Marxism in international relations theory. In fact, she basically touted Marxism as the theory to hold when approaching foreign policy.

I had a professor admit openly that she was a socialist and that she views Mexican American history (the subject of the class) through that worldview. So, I don't know what to tell you. My experiences on a college campus for four years showed me that more often than not there's a left-wing lean, but I only had a few professors who took that to an unreasonable place. Most introduced their bias very slightly during lecture and didn't usually punish students for disagreeing. If you don't realize that the bias exists, then you either attend an amazing school, a conservative school or you never actually attended college at all. Or maybe you're just wrapped up in your ideology that you can't see B.S. coming at you.

Answer 4

I have had many teachers at the state run public university who were clearly biased and in some instances openly racist and sexist. I dropped those classes and sought out teachers who had a more open mind and did not impose their ideology on their students.

Many liberals promote diversity of homosexuals, races, gender, etc. - everything except ideas where they want an adherence to their perspective and their viewpoints.

I am a paleoconservative. Ron Paul is the representative and presidential candidate who best supports my political views.

Dr. Ron Paul was against the war before it started (unlike most Democrats and Republicans who voted for the Iraq War).

Dr. Ron Paul is for American workers and is against unfair trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA which passed with support from both parties. Ron Paul is also against the North American Union which will end US sovereignty and replace it with a trilateral government (Canada, US & Mexico) with a common constitution and currency and completely open borders. This is what the New World Order and George Bush wants which is why he refuses to protect our borders.

I support Austrian Economic policy and no it is not a Nazi based economic viewpoint (Nazis were socialists).

When government grows it grows at the expense of taxpayers. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely which explains Washington DC and the bipartisan assault on America and the American people.

Answer 5

tell me a school that may not overpopulated with the help of liberal instructors. I spent maximum of my time in political technology attempting to state a view component that differed from the lib instructor (who could not justify her view logically) and became ultimately advised to pass away the class. I quickly left the school while my GI bill money (the only i became going there to start with) ended and that i found out a school degree isn't necessary for a stable interest. I have not any college degree and have been employed in a stable paying interest for greater suitable than 25 years. I even have on no account been laid on and rancid no account paid any union dues. I evaluate myself to be a Constitutional Conservative politically.

Answer 6

There has always seemed to be this notion of us/them regarding academia. There's this sneaking suspicion that highly educated people know something they shouldn't. In every revolution, the first people to go are the intellectuals. Intellectuals are a threat to the status quo. It's scary for people who are (largely) religious to think about the millions of people that are being educated about Darwin, and women's rights, and gay theory, and so on. The fact that all of these things exist outrages a lot of right wingers, and none of these topics would exist were it not for the student movements of the mid to late 1960s. Those movements revolutionized higher education and its role in society. And the people who now run the country hated those hippie kids and their hippie movements. Large groups of young, idealistic people scare the right wing.

Answer 7

It's all part of the class war going on in the U.S.

The wealthy want to dumb down the workforce. The goal is to make all industries, even those with many "knowledge workers" work like McDonald's, where the qualifications for any given job is basically just being alive. That means any given employee can make no demands on the company, which means the gap between the salaries of the executives can go up up up while the wages of the workforce goes down down down.

The philosophy is that thinking is bad. Thinking leads to things like dissatisfaction, questioning authority, challenging the status quo, etc.

Answer 8

having gone through higher education I can tell you firsthand that liberal propaganda was practically on the syllabus in some classes. many (not all) professors have a hard time removing their personal politics and agendas from the classroom.

someone below described exactly what quite a few liberal professors Ive encountered DO NOT do: present broad view points and expect people to think for themselves. this is actually what irritates conservatives about the structure of higher education.

Answer 9

Yup, there has been a systematic dumbing down of educational standards for decades. This has been re-in forced by a similar strategy being employed in the mass media and the creation of "info--tainment" . e.g when the mass media was obsessing over Paris Hilton instead of questioning if say Iran really has a nuclear weapons program.
of course had they actually asked that they might have got the peskey TRUTH - . and got in the way of Bush war aims

Answer 10

I have the perfect answer. My GPA has always been maintained between a 4.0 and 3.8. My last class was a Polic Sci class. I was one of two republicans in the class of 150.
After a conflict with another student, and the instructor telling me to review my facts because I didn't share his same interpretation of history, I was threatened with a c/c-.
Only after taking issue up to dean along with all my work in the course which reflected As and Bs, I finally got my A.
It took the dean to average out and see that As and Bs do not equal a close D, just a different opinion!
At the beginning of my studies I used to regurgitate what my instructors wanted to hear which was all straight down the demoRat platform. Eventually, my moral compass could no longer be compromised and I now earn my As through my intellect and not theirs.

Answer 11

Yes, ignorance and the vilification of free thought is their tool.
It takes less energy to control a flock of dim-witted sheep than to wheedle a population with an iota of common sense.

Sheep don't ask why, they just submit.


April: Colleges just present material, it's up to the student how they process it, and how they apply it.

My opinions were well intact before I set foot in a college lecture hall.