There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
If you go into an academic institution with a clean slate, you are very likely to come out a liberal. That is a huge problem.
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.
So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.