04-06-2017, 05:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-06-2017, 05:45 PM by FireIceTalon.)
It's a popular right wing narrative that college is a left-wing indoctrination institution. But I wouldn't say its exactly correct. It is true that many college professors lean left, but that is mostly in the social science departments, and even there, there is still plenty of right-wing professors to be found (particularly in the fields of economics and business).
I would say a more accurate interpretation is that HIGH SCHOOL is a right-wing indoctrination session, where history, politics, and even art are taught from a very right-wing, reactionary, traditional or pro-capitalist perspective - and that socialism/communism are seen as the root of all evil. In college you just get a bit more of the other side that challenges all the crap you were taught and told to be taken as truth that you learned in high school. Further, in high school we are generally taught to respect authority and hierarchy, whereas college can (and sometimes) does provide a realm which challenges that notion. If anything, I'd say it simply brings some balance and the (possibility) of other perspectives that we don't learn in our primary education/high school. High school especially is designed to mold us into respecting authority so we can be good wage slaves and cogs in the system, though the indoctrination actually starts in grade school or even earlier.
I would say a more accurate interpretation is that HIGH SCHOOL is a right-wing indoctrination session, where history, politics, and even art are taught from a very right-wing, reactionary, traditional or pro-capitalist perspective - and that socialism/communism are seen as the root of all evil. In college you just get a bit more of the other side that challenges all the crap you were taught and told to be taken as truth that you learned in high school. Further, in high school we are generally taught to respect authority and hierarchy, whereas college can (and sometimes) does provide a realm which challenges that notion. If anything, I'd say it simply brings some balance and the (possibility) of other perspectives that we don't learn in our primary education/high school. High school especially is designed to mold us into respecting authority so we can be good wage slaves and cogs in the system, though the indoctrination actually starts in grade school or even earlier.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)