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College professors at secular schools tend to be liberal. I went to a conservative Christian college, and they were still more progressive than the average student who attended that school.
Listening to another point of view won't kill you.
If you feel it will, there's Grove City, University of Dallas, Christiandom College and several more that are reliably right wing.
Choosing a school based on political bias doesn't make any sense when you're limiting your list to schools that perform poorly in higher education... and if education is the purpose of you attending college in the first place.
Developing critical thinking and reasoning skills is central to a college education, and confronting readings and lectures that do not conform to your views is part of the process. You don't have to accept his views but you do need to come to a well researched and reasoned conclusion as to why.
What do you guys think of a political science professor who clearly endorses his own political views on his students (it helps that 99% of the class agrees with him)? Currently, I'm taking an intro political science course and our current unit is present-day America. My professor has assigned a bunch of readings written by himself and a book about Frances Fox Piven. My professor is extremely intelligent, knowledgeable, and credible, but all of the readings denounce the Tea Party and Republicans, and endorse clear-cut liberal ideas. Piven actually came to our lecture yesterday and said that 'we" were all relieved that the "crazies" did not win in the election. I'm just concerned because I'm starting to believe everything I have just started to read. They are basically radically changing my political position. So two questions.. One- Is this common for professors to push their own views and two, I'm not being brain-washed, correct? All along, I kind of think I was ignorant to support such antiquated beliefs.
I had lots of biased professors. I just learned to think for myself and make my own decisions regardless. It sounds like in your case you are being challenged. This isn't a bad thing. You may change your mind on certain things or it may strengthen your current beliefs. Either way just enjoy the class and keep learning new things.
Second, the objective of the professor is to teach (or at least encourage) the students to think for themselves, and how can he do this if he is hogtied to prohibit him from thinking for himself?
Except, this professor is not teaching the students how to think for themselves, he is just regurgitating the left wing talking points and telling them how to think.
What many people seem to forget is that the real value of a college education is to teach students how to think, not what to think, and to be able to clearly and convincingly communicate what you think.
I will bet that you have never even met a hard core leftist. There is certainly not a single hard-core leftist in the US Congress, and probably never will be. However, just because they're a professor DOES mean they are educated, and it is pretty hard to make it successfully through the education process without questioning the views of the right.
Education is a process of discriminating in terms that are more complex than black and white. You don't just clump the cheerleaders for the conservative agenda on the right, and then call it "hard core left" for everyone who voices an objection to the "closeed-minded idiots" at the extreme right,.
Have you noticed, by the way, that the ten states with the highest number of people with college degrees were ALL carried by Obama, and the ten states with the lowest number of college graduates ALL (with one exception) were carried by Romney. Apparently, to you, formal education is a dumbing down process that destroys America's intellect and understanding.
By the way, what are YOUR educational qualifications, to call a professor of political science wrong -- about political science? Maybe, when nearly all highly educated people disagree with you, it is time to rethink your own position, instead of trying to gag them and force them to teach your own tired and extremist rhetoric.
I am a college professor, and I don't agree. Left yes, way left of the left, no. Most professors are democrats, but most are fairly moderate. You will certainly find the most left and most vocal left on campusus, however. That's simply what they tend to be - professors. They write and research and spend their lives expounding these ideas. That's who the far left are. The far right, on the other hand, are mostly found on radio stations it seems, and tend not to be educated enough to teach politics or philosophy or writing on a college campus. However, the majority of professors are just moderately left. In general our students tend to be more liberal than we are.
Your view could be skewed based upon your perceptions. Someone who leans so far left they idolize historical communist leaders will think those not as far left as they are to be conservative. It's like the running joke about how one views the speed of others in relation to their own speed and whether the others are slowing him down or passing him up. I consider myself a fiscal and constitutional conservative. On most social issues I really don't care unless it impacts taxes and government spending. If it impacts taxes and government spending, then it depends on the issue, amount of fraud, and amount of spending. To some, I'm a "right wing neocon". To some I know, I'm more moderate centrist.
College professors at secular schools tend to be liberal. I went to a conservative Christian college, and they were still more progressive than the average student who attended that school.
Listening to another point of view won't kill you.
If you feel it will, there's Grove City, University of Dallas, Christiandom College and several more that are reliably right wing.
It's not that listening to another point of view would kill the student, it's the derision for expressing a political point of view in opposition to those expressed by the professor using his bully pulpit to mock and insult the student and his/her point of view to the laughing students in addition to grading in accordance with his or her political views even if the student presented clearly researched and defined facts and logical arguments.
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