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Come on, Lucern, you know that you were exactly like that I know I was...
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Lol..Unfortunately that's true. It was probably even worse for me and anyone else who went to a private school. Talk about arrogant brats. It would be a shame if we never grew out of it, or at least weren't able to identify the irony/hypocracy in our situations! [img]smile.gif[/img]
However, we didn't have a book and a column lol. At least I didn't. We're looking at an extreme with a healthy dose of adult encouragement.
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I've actually found that I'm becoming more conservative with more schooling & experience...
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My economics tends to be quite right-wing the more I study it...
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Certainly, it's possible to go the other way (if it's really directional), even among PhDs with post-docs under their belt. As for me, and lots of my friends, we slowly discarded the inborn Texas conservatism that we were brought up with. Some never budged an inch.
None of that matters though because statistically it's still very much the case that the more years (not saying quality mind you) of education one has had, the more likely one is to identify oneself as liberal or Democrat. I get this from statistical analysis of the GSS (General Social Survey) - a bi-annual (sometimes) survey of a rather random sample of Americans. Can't make any claims about other nations though.
We can't make predictions about individuals, only general trends in the population. Through all this, though, it's clear that education has the power to change our ideas about the world around us. Whichever way we lean, we probably have much better reasoning attached to it.
I'd also like to point out how relevent Shamrock's signature is to this thread. [img]smile.gif[/img]