Teaching Based on Core Assumptions

In my last blog, I attacked liberalism for its propensity to focus on deliberately affecting the results in teaching instead of relying on the process of teaching students how to think for themselves.

If conservative professors taught their opinions in the classroom, I would be attacking them for the same reason. But my guess is that conservative professors would not be as indoctrinary and masturbatory as liberal professors. Here is why:

Conservatives begin with the underlying core assumption that man is constrained with regards to reason, therefore man is fallible and prone to make mistakes. Therefore, processes such as the rule of law, free-markets and teaching children how to think for themselves produce better results because it is not relying on the wisdom of "the elite" to directly control the outcome.

Since (in my opinion) good teaching is a process-oriented activity instead of a results-oriented activity, conservatives must logically tend to be better teachers. This is because they tend will focus on the process which means that they will withhold their political views from the classroom. Liberals believe in deliberately affecting results, which is why they similarly favor larger government, and more direct involvement of the economy.

I do not have data on whether conservatives actually do preach less in the classroom. But, it is true in my own experience. If there was a "conservative" that was preaching his views, he would be logically inconsistent with the core assumptions of own ideology.