Yes, there are some wacky folks in academia and I, for one, am very glad I was exposed to them....I learned a lot about different ways of looking at the world....Exposure to ideas does not make you brainwashed....and, believe it or not, there are kernels of truth everywhere
The vast majority of everything we learn in school starting young is, in essences, total nonsense....barely better than propaganda in many instances and worse in other....the people fighting against academies don't want academic freedom, they want only one story told
The whole assumption is alternative narratives have magic powers....if you read that Thomas Jefferson owned and impregnated his slaves, in addition to the stuff we were taught, you will be forever incapable of independent thought? Even though that is actually true?
A liberal arts education is based on the idea that exposure to ideas is good. Parents used to believe that if they taught their children values, kids had the right to explore the world of ideas and come to their own conclusions....
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