" For university I can take a student loan to go to any college I want private, public, community, technical, etc. That is, the government underwrites loans to help students afford the education they want, but doesn't mandate WHAT education they get; that's up to them."
There is a big difference between public and private institutions. The professors at public institutions are government employees. There should be some standard of accountability for teaching and fairness. In other words, public institutions should specialize in training future liberals or conservatives. I think that private institutions are completely different ball game. Some parents may send their child to an private school because its professors are extremely liberal or conservative (Bob Jones comes to mind here). Since, these institutions are not funded directly by the government, they should be allowed to teach how they want. The real question is: Are you getting an education if you are only getting one side of an issue over and over again without ever examining opposing views? One of the best classes I ever took was Intro to Philosophy. The prof made you pick your side of an argument, give supporting arguments, state your opposition's arguments, and then give your counter arguments. Seems like a good model to follow in non technical classes. Interestingly enough, a lot of students couldn't do this. They would get hung up on their own view. I guess some professors are the same way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228640 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
