parents, you can live as an adult in a sheltered environment,
consequences bedamned. You experiment, you meet hundreds of people that
are far different from anyone you went to high school with - you're
naturally more inclined to live a life and harbor beliefs that fall into
the liberal spectrum of things. You're living in an echo chamber - and
idealism thrives in places like that.
We're naturally a more conservative society as a whole, so "conservative
idealism" is something of an oxymoron, but liberal idealism is par for
the course. You won't find too many liberals at bible colleges or Bob
Jones U. simply because they're specifically designed to promote that
conservative, religious idealism.
There's a saying I've heard a number of times - if you're not young and
liberal, you have no heart; if you're not old and conservative, you have
no brain. Sounds reasonable - I find myself moping toward being more
conservative as I get into the kids/mortgage/stability thing these days
- far more mellow than I was in college. I'm still a liberal, though,
but have little patience for university-style starry-eyedness and
naivitee, though I know there's a reason for it.
- Jim
Matthew Small wrote:
>Why are colleges and universities more liberal than conservative?
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>- Matt Small
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