i <3 boobs and donuts wrote:
Most people who attend liberal arts colleges emerge less educated than they were when they entered. They get brainwashed by Marxist professors, "learn" things that aren't true and graduate with negative knowledge, actually knowing less than nothing because everything they think they know is wrong.
I can it in many of the posters on this site. There are many leftist posters out here who reasonably intelligent and were probably normal as a teenagers, but then went to college and lost their minds taking liberal arts courses. Unable to make sense of the insipid nonsense their economics professors spouted, but determined to fit in and conform to the school's intellectual trends, they simply took everything they heard on their professors' authority and assumed that everything they were "learning" had been scientifically proven and wasto be accepted regardless of how little sense it made. Now they run around mindlessly babbling things that defy basic common sense, evading the most obvious logical connections as the country burns, but don't feel the need to even make an effort to be reasonable because they are secure in the knowledge that their views are consistent with majority's and therefore (in their minds) beyond scrutiny.
This is a rather bigoted statement. Where did you get your education? Fox News?
One of the values of a liberal arts education--whether you are conservative or "liberal" in a political sense--is that you learn to look at information, analyze it, make some sense of it, and then learn how to communicate effectively. It's not just a bunch commie of dogma thrown at you and saying that demonstrates complete ignorance on your part.
Not saying that a more techincal type of education is bad either. And yes, many good scientists were trained at liberal arts colleges.
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