[laurav]

Why anyone would allow their child to study humanities at any university--much less foot the bill for it--is beyond me.

Spare me. Conservatives need not be anti-intellectual. I studied the humanities at an Ivy League university. What did that mean? I took several courses in the Western canon covering the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology and drama, Homer, Virgil, Church thinkers such as Aquinas and Augustine, great works of western literature from Dante to Dostoevsky. I studied ethics, masterworks of Western Art, classical music, Constitutional interpretation from an avowed conservative professor, economic history of the US taught by a very pro-capitalist professor and so forth.

I graduated and got a job in my field. I think my family got what we paid for.

[MrB]

If it's not too impolite to ask... how long ago was that?
The lib-socialist hold on the institutions of higher learning has accelerated in the recent past.

I graduated from a midwestern college in '90, and I don't remember experiencing much of the socialist indoctrination that I'm hearing about recently.

[wjcsux]

I took several courses in the Western canon covering the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology and drama, Homer, Virgil, Church thinkers such as Aquinas and Augustine, great works of western literature from Dante to Dostoevsky.
When did you attend college and where? I would have my serious doubts about most of the Liberal Arts universities of today teaching anything but anti-American Marxist tripe.

[giotto]

Perhaps I overstated it. You probably already had a good high school education--maybe were even home-schooled--before you went off to university. Those most susceptible to liberal brainwashing are the ones who arrive at college with more self esteem than skills--the "skulls full of mush" that Rush always refers to. Even a well prepared student can fall under the sway of a charismatic professor who colors his subject matter with his own interpretation. It can then take years and even decades before the student even realizes that many of his assumptions are based on these faulty ideas. Some never do.