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Why does the government give tax dollars to colleges to fund their “liberal arts” programs? Do we really need to indoctrinate more people to be liberals?
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Anonymous 4w

It’s funny I went to public school in NY for five years and my professors never mentioned politics, not even once lol

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Anonymous 4w

I really hope this helps because it has nothing to do with politics they hire people with diverse political views and backgrounds on purpose and enforce that the teachers do not use their power imbalance over the students to impose their ideals

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Anonymous 4w

“liberal” in liberal arts just means “worthy of a free person” and dates from like. 4th century BC Athens

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Anonymous 4w

It’s truly about arming each and every student with what they need to think for themselves and advocated for themselves in this world. I wouldn’t have so many math classes and science classes and history classes and world thought classes, and individual to contemporary society which focuses on making sound arguments! if my school wasn’t a liberal arts college because I’m an ART major

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Anonymous 4w

They teach about logical fallacies world history general science and all the classes actually connect to each other if you take them at the same time! (Aka usually taking about the same time period so art history and world history talking about the same time periods I get more perspective!)

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Anonymous 4w

I’ve seen my school turn people with all political views into better educated and better and defending their beliefs even when I disagree!

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Anonymous 4w

Also it’s fine if you want to argue against these schools being funded!!! I just want you to actually understand what you are arguing against!!!

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