WELL stated! I have an interesting, I think, hypothesis about conservatives, religious people and education. I’d value your take. And we must keep in mind that, in America anyway, education was lauded until sometime 20-odd years ago.
They see their children getting educated, and they’re not liking the results.
One problem is that the world has changed by leaps and bounds never seen in human history, leaps and bounds we didn’t evolve to handle. Now their kids are coming home and telling them they’re wrong about so many things. I was trying to tell my mother she was killing the yard. “Where did you learn all this smarty pants?” “In the horticulture classes you sent me to college for.” She killed damned near everything but the sorry looking grass.
You send your kid off to college and he comes back a different person. The horror! I would expect and hope for that, but for some they only see their child leaving the tribe. As you said, that’s been dangerous in our past.
Another problem is that educated people tend towards the left side of the political spectrum, tend towards losing their religion. This has to be explained. What? Are you calling us stupid?! They have to explain this to themselves. The only way out is to say the colleges are indoctrinating our youth.
I first saw this when Rush Limbaugh was attacking “ivory tower libruls”. Before that I had not noticed education in the crosshairs, not on the national stage. “Education is not the issue per se, it’s the liberals who have taken over and are brainwashing our children.” Pat answer, ain’t it?
The other issues are as you stated, no need to reiterate what you so very well wrote. Shit. Wrote all that and I think all I did was put your words in a poorer format.
WELL stated! I have an interesting, I think, hypothesis about conservatives, religious people and education. I’d value your take. And we must keep in mind that, in America anyway, education was lauded until sometime 20-odd years ago.
They see their children getting educated, and they’re not liking the results.
One problem is that the world has changed by leaps and bounds never seen in human history, leaps and bounds we didn’t evolve to handle. Now their kids are coming home and telling them they’re wrong about so many things. I was trying to tell my mother she was killing the yard. “Where did you learn all this smarty pants?” “In the horticulture classes you sent me to college for.” She killed damned near everything but the sorry looking grass.
You send your kid off to college and he comes back a different person. The horror! I would expect and hope for that, but for some they only see their child leaving the tribe. As you said, that’s been dangerous in our past.
Another problem is that educated people tend towards the left side of the political spectrum, tend towards losing their religion. This has to be explained. What? Are you calling us stupid?! They have to explain this to themselves. The only way out is to say the colleges are indoctrinating our youth.
I first saw this when Rush Limbaugh was attacking “ivory tower libruls”. Before that I had not noticed education in the crosshairs, not on the national stage. “Education is not the issue per se, it’s the liberals who have taken over and are brainwashing our children.” Pat answer, ain’t it?
The other issues are as you stated, no need to reiterate what you so very well wrote. Shit. Wrote all that and I think all I did was put your words in a poorer format.