SmokeAndMirrors
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Perhaps where it was and how interested you were in learning could be part of the problem
I learned what was taught without the benefit of a computer.
I would say yes. Conservatives seem less inclined to go into that line of work. If conservatives think the education field is too liberal maybe more of them should go into the field. Probably not enough money in it, though.
No. I was fortunate to have an intelligent and educated parent that picked up the slack. I went to a 3 schools, 2 of which were some of the best in the country in their respective categories (public and private). Both garbage.
What is taught is largely nonsense, which I guess explains your own anti-science attitude.
So you're just another rebel.
Do you believe that the school system is ran mostly by liberals?
Do you believe that the school system is ran mostly by liberals?
This says it better than I...
Modern liberalism rejects, to one degree or another, the competence and sovereignty of the common man and subordinates him to the will of governments run by liberal elites. The western world's twentieth century capitulation to this philosophy is obvious--and the implications for liberty are ominous. But the history of the world also documents the heroic struggles of human beings to escape from tyrannies of all types, whether imposed by the brute force and declared entitlement of a dictator, or falsely justified by economic, religious or political sophistries. The science fiction of Marxian economic evolution, the grandiose fantasy of a New World Order, the utopian dreams of The Great Society, the myth of the divine emperor, have all had their turns on center stage in irrational man's attempts to legitimize government control and deny individual liberty.
The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness, by Lyle Rossiter, Jr., MD
I think it's a load of codswallop.
students, because of age, tend towards liberalism
they are students who dont fit that mold.....but the majority certainly do
rose colored glasses, and idealism.....
and again, the majority of academia is very liberal with some exceptions
i would hope students take information from both sides and process it.....and come up with their own beliefs
do i think that happens? not really....at least for the majority of students
Do you believe that the school system is ran mostly by liberals?
Most educated people in the world are tolerant of different views, which makes them liberal, IMO. They also focus more on facts and logic, and like to discuss matters and different views. There is a reason that one of the first groups that Hitler went after were the professors and educators.
It varies but, what most would consider Leftist propaganda like abortion rights, SSM, tolerance for sinful acts while denying faith based ones. Pushing the global warming scare and evolution as absolutes.
The worse of all is using any of this as a wedge between the students and their parent and family. That's where it gets really sick.
Do you believe that the school system is ran mostly by liberals?
What, with my whole reverence for my parent thing? Yup, that's me, punk as ****.
Ok then. Maybe I just don't swallow things that have been known to be factually wrong for centuries just become dogmatists want to live in an alternate reality. :shrug:
Not in the real world does this happen in my experience.
I of course can't speak for all public schools but many, if not all, of those topics are rarely brought up in any typical classroom. It was a pretty rare thing for our teachers to talk about things like gay marriage or abortion or global warming, and when it was the teacher certainly didn't endorse or push a view onto us.
When I was in an earth science class the topic of global warming came up but it certainly wasn't pushed in a political or heavy handed way by our teacher. Also evolution was a topic in science class but there wasn't really a huge amount of time spent on it from what I remember and bringing up creation would have felt out of place in my opinion. It would have been an awkward topic to try and squeeze in and it just doesn't fit in a science class.
In my government classes some of these topics came up obviously but it was usually in the context of current events and not the teacher or school promoting a specific point of view for us to concede to.
Faith was never brought up in any of my classes but that's most likely because it just doesn't fit in most subjects.
Like I said though I can't speak for all schools and i'm sure there are teachers out there that try to influence their students towards their particular point of view which would be wrong to do, but I do think that a lot of the fear about liberal indoctrination is kind of hard to really back up and plus I think it underestimates the students a little bit too. I think that the majority of teachers and staff have the students best interest at heart and I think most students have a better understanding of what's going on than people give them credit for.
Also most students are influenced much more by their close friends than their teachers and even a lot of the times their own family. I had a lot of respect for at least two of my teachers in high school whom were amazing people and very inspirational but I still trusted my closest friends more when it came to things that may have an affect on me. But that was my experience and so I can really only speak credibly based on my own observations over the last four years that I was in high school.
Sounds to me like you went to schools that actually taught rather than politicize.
Sounds to me like you went to schools that actually taught rather than politicize.
They do still exist, in spite of various government bureaucracies trying to eradicate such dens of evil.
Yes they do, Thank God
That's most likely the norm across the country and not the exception I believe. You will always have a teacher or administrator that makes a bad decision or a selfish decision and hopefully they themselves learn from those mistakes if they get in trouble, but I believe that most teachers and school districts are not out to manipulate their student's political leanings. Right now in my first year of college so far i've seen a lot more political messages and influences than I ever saw in k-12, not from the professors though but from fellow students.
Just remember those student's opinions were formed somewhere by someone. Their belief system is not coincidental.
Have you studied any theology in your various schooling?
As long as you eventually see the light, nothing wrong with straying.
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