Let me put it this way...I was far more liberal after four years at UMass then I was when I started. What ended up making me a conservative was the real world. Once you're out in it for awhile you come to realize that college professor who sounded like they were such an authority...had little or no real world experience and was speaking about "theory". "Theory" is what Larry Summers and Christina Romer brought to the White House and the failure of "theory" is what had them both packing their bags and running back to their college jobs.
That's what undergraduate studies are supposed to do. They expose you to ideas that you might not ever have had on your own, on all sorts of subjects you might not have thought you were interested in.
How you feel about things, all things, is based on your own life experience. That doesn't mean that you were too sheltered as a youth nor that those who taught you had an agenda. It means you can't be taught everything in a classroom that you need to know to function effectively in real life.
You came to your own conclusions based on fundamentals you learned in school regardless of any spin you think was used. Great. The system works.
Frankly, anyone who is as influenced by a teacher or a group of teachers as you seem to think most economists are isn't being brainwashed. It sounds more like a student crush. I don't think that is representative of the people who call themselves economists. They do what you and I and everyone I know did - learn what we could in school the easy way and learn what's really important afterwards, the hard way.
So how is getting only one side of a political argument "exposing" students to ideas? It's not! It's programming them to believe what they are being told.
So my learning in the real world that most of my college professors didn't have a clue what they were talking about means that the "system works"? That's an amusing concept. I had to UNLEARN what I spent a lot of money learning in the first place! The system would "work" if I was given an unbiased look at different arguments and allowed to make a decision about what seemed to be the best theory! That isn't what's taking place on college campuses these days.
I can't dispute your personal academic experience your personal experiences are yours and yours alone, but it sure doesn't square with my well rounded college experience - maybe you should have chosen more diversity in your class selections...?
But-----but well rounded would put you at odds with rightwing guru Frank Luntz's meme that bettering yourself via education is the reason the GOP sucks in the minds of the majority of millennials.
'Lost' Generation
July 25, 2016
By Colleen Flaherty
Is an entire generation of voters “lost” to the Grand Old Party, and is academe at fault? That’s what conservative pollster and pundit Frank Luntz told a roomful of delegates at the Republican National Convention last week.
Yet academics who study the issue disagree.
“Luntz doesn’t have his facts straight,” said Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, who has studied politics and the professoriate. “Young Americans are leaning to the left these days, but it has very little to do with what they’re being taught by college professors.”
Speaking to a group of South Carolina delegates at a breakfast meeting in Cleveland, Luntz declared his No. 1 priority to be “what happens at universities,”
The Hill reported.
“Capitol Hill matters, yes, politics matter, but a whole generation is being taught by professors who voted for Bernie Sanders,” Luntz said. “That’s a problem that begs for a solution.”
Recycling the notion that college and university campuses are fertile recruiting grounds for an army of liberal academics, Luntz declared millennials “lost” to his party.
“It's not like we are losing -- we have lost that generation,” he said.
As proof, Luntz offered the following data point: that 58 percent of millennials -- in his words -- “say socialism is the better form of economics.” That, he said, “is the damage of academia.”
Luntz presumably was referring to a 2015 poll by Reason-Rupe, which found that 58 percent of college-age Americans have a positive view of socialism, compared to 56 percent for capitalism.
The finding apparently jarred the GOP audience. “We are screwed,” one delegate said aloud, according to
The Hill.
But other data don’t support Luntz’s argument.
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Is your mind just c&ping Frank Luntz's Republican talking points?
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