[pepsionice]

I would agree on Cognitive Dissonance. Part of this issue is the transformation of colleges in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Forcing debate upon students and requiring them to demonstrate a thought process to reach a decision...used to be the value of a college education. This was true throughout the 1700s and 1800s.

Over the past forty-odd years...colleges dumped reasoning and debate skills. There may be varying reasons for this, but the end result is that you have pretender-educated-people with no real skill to reason, debate or accept other ideas. The degree today....is worthless.

[sparklite2]

.used to be the value of a college education

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The value was that you learned how to use a library.
That is, where to go to find out what you need to know.
Now that there’s Google and a worldwide database, they don’t even need that.

[M-cubed]

but the end result is that you have pretender-educated-people with no real skill to reason, debate or accept other ideas.<<<

Bingo!...Liberalism is PRETENDING you understand....as long as you havent been mugged yet...