[Nataku X]

I think it has more to do with the mindset of a student entering college. Students who choose "employable" majors such as nursing, engineering, etc. are more likely to be conservative by nature.

Students (mostly female) who choose majors because these majors are "interesting" are more likely to be out of touch with reality, and therefore have an anti-capitalism mindset. There is not a whole lot of demand for philosophy, history, journalism, art, et cetera, and it's completely unrealistic to spend $100,000 majoring in such... so these students wind up hating capitalism that denies them a living babbling & writing nonsense.

[Desecrated]

"There is not a whole lot of demand for philosophy, history, journalism, art, et cetera..."

Are you saying there is no role for these genres simply because there is no "demand" for them? Some people choose these paths because that is what brings them happiness, which is not necessarily connected to money. Just because there is no market demand for philosopers or history majors doesn't mean that they don't play an important role in a capitalist society.

[middie]

Universities are not vocational schhols. Teaching employable skills is the legitimate role of trade schools. Teaching the processes of thought, the theories and philosophies of the great thinkers of history and the skills of critical analyis are the high roles we should demand from universities and colleges. Engineers who can build a bridge but who haven't a clue as to the greatness of poetry, literature, the who, why and effect of history, or who have no appreciation of the great philosophers from ancient Greece to the industrial revolution and beyond are nothing more than automotons and skilled workers.

Higher education should challenge the young (and older) mind to grow both in learning, but more important, in wisdom and the means by which to reach that high plane.

[El Conservador]

I think it has more to do with the mindset of a student entering college. Students who choose "employable" majors such as nursing, engineering, etc. are more likely to be conservative by nature

Not necesarily true. I'm a Civil Engineering major and I have a few liberal classmates, who are really outspoken, but we're mostly indifferent to politics or conservatives (I think the former is more applicable).

As the author exposes it, engineering is totally disconnected with politics, since we don't deal with "ideas" but with theorems and formulas, we're mathematicians by nature.

I thank God that I chose to major in Civil Engineering, because I couldn't stomach all that drivel.