Because when a professor asks a question about a controversial subject and virtually every student in the classroom has the same opinion there ain't much critical thinking going on.
Why Are the Highly Educated So Liberal?
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Because when a professor asks a question about a controversial subject and virtually every student in the classroom has the same opinion there ain't much critical thinking going on.
jacksonsprat22
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I take it you've never been in a college classroom.
Yes the data is the data. I've seen nobody dispute the data with any other set. We are arguing about "why" until someone does.
I've heard your theory also. The advanced theory in the OP logically coexists with yours. Someone open to new ideas can also be one who values critical discourse.
Of course detractors say its a bunch of hooey and kids are just sent to colleges full of liberal indoctrination. They have yet to tell me how "liberal indoctrination"
became the extant condition of the intelligentsia such that these coneheads in the ivory towers are all liberals and not "common sense" authoritarians who believe
in self determinism, free markets, god and country.
Math, stats, chemistry, physics, astronomy, computers don't have any political persuasion. That can go a long way to explaining why those steeped in those fields
might tend to be conservative by default, having not studied humanities, political science, sociology, psychology etc. If you don't study something, it's hard to be good at it.
Data ... what a crock ... you can compile data to support anything you believe ... the NYT are experts at this.
Book lern' and common sense lern' are two very different things.
Indoctrinated stupidity. #moron
Plenty of them ... kinda required to get an engineering degree.
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anonymoose
Classical Liberal
I stand corrected. I associated neoliberism with modern liberalism. Sounds like neoliberals are basically classical liberals (myself).
Your stupidity is epic. #moron
Very good post Walter ... ones politics usually depends upon how informed a person is or through a life altering experience.
Ones education probably has very little or nothing to do with their political beliefs ... a persons family probably has a greater impact than their education.
btw leftys are calling themselves progressives these days ... or neoprogs.
Wrong; you're worthless because you are a brain dead moron. #dumbfuck
jacksonsprat22
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Yes ... I was indoctrinated into civil engineering at a major university.
But I survived and even made a living from it.
We were talking about critical thinking ... you sure wander around a lot.