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Even if all of your neighbors, and every prof at every university is an extreme lefty, that doesn't guarantee that you have a grand liberal factory in American universities.
I'm with Davros here about de-indoctrination. It's been said that college is a time to question and re-evaluate all of the crap that was loaded onto you during your first 18 years. He was specifically talking about prior education rather than parental and cultural indoctrination (I mean, who listens to their parents? Honestly lol).
And I'm lucky for having re-evaluated it - many of us can believe some of the mis-information, half-truths, and areas of utter ignorance you can come out of high school with. My physics teacher told us that sea levels couldn't go any higher. My history teacher only said of WW2 that "It was important, and you should read about it sometime," and my biology teacher (in a secular college prep private school) never mentioned evolution.
In college you have to stop taking information wholly by authority. A professor isn't telling you "Truth". S/He's telling you what can be learned from a specific discipline and how certain that knowledge can be based on reason and evidence and encouraging you to apply it in ways that test its validity. Some use labs, some use a wide variety of texts, experiments, or exercises, but that's basically what's happening here. Colleges are different of course, and anyone who's been has had his/her share of lousy profs, but to me, teaching people valid ways of gathering and analyzing information is the best thing they could possibly do.
Blinding people with a single ideology would not only be difficult, but pointless and largely irrelevent to most subjects. What's an extreme lefty prof going to do in an anthropology, biology, gender studies, computer science, or foreign language class? What would a neocon* do differently?
*And yes, neocon profs exist. Ask Condi Rice.
[ 01-23-2005, 03:36 PM: Message edited by: Lucern ]
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