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Ask Dr. Helen: How Can I Keep My Students From Becoming Little Marxists?
December 15, 2008 - 1:30 am
DoDoGuRu
2008-12-15 11:02:32
@ 10: fred lapides
That’s actually not really true. In most of the studies on “conversion” in college the study was based on answers students gave to a range of questions. The same number of students claimed to be “conservative” seniors as had claimed to be “conservative” freshmen. However, the seniors answers to specific issue questions like welfare, guns, the environment and so forth were all noticeably further left than freshmen. And no wonder, given four years of hearing “Marx is so awesome I can’t even stand it” and never an opposing view in sight, the conversation itself moves away from the right.
College professors don’t convert students by dragging them to the left. They shift the entire discourse to the left.
