Reply #103: Well, I probably too strongly equated "education" with college.

[DuaneBidoux]

I recognize there is a difference. Someone can also be self educated in that they learn a lot on their own of what someone would learn with a broad university education.

But I do feel education starts moving one left. When I started my bachelors I came from a very conservative Republican family and considered myself a conversvative. In fact I joined the Young Republicans when I was a freshman. Now I realize I was just repeating the mantras I had learned growing up without thinking about what they meant.

Over the course of my bachelors degree, which was in anthroppology, I moved further and further left. By the time I had over two hundred university hours and a masters I was quite progressive.

For me anyway there is no doubt that learning history, literature, art, philosophy (I probably have a combined 120 hours in these topics) was responsible in large measure for my move toward liberalism.

I stand by most of my analysis although you make some great points. The question becomes what kind of degrees to Billo and Coulter have? I've found that anyone that doesn't broadly educate you won't make you liberal (engineering or any technical degree tends (and note I say TEND) to go this way.