[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by The One and Only...

I'm aware of the fact about publishing. I was speaking about what they should teach in the classroom.

So then, if the majority of philosophy teachers taught that Objectivism is correct, you would not have a problem with that?

What they should teach in the classroom is what they were hired to teach. If ANY philosophy department, however unlikely itmay be, were dominated by Objectivism, you'd have a few options. 1. Why is it so? Is the Chair of the department an Objectivist? Ask those questions. 2. If this school is clearly dominated by Objectivist philosophy, for whatever reason, is this then the right school for me? 3. If you have few options and MUST go to that school, are they allowing all opinions to be heard? Is this a conducive learning environment for most of the students in the classroom....?

What if the teachers graded you based on your opinions?

If this is proven, which is difficult, they should be fired.

Taxation is an act of the government seizing and collecting property. In any case, you miss the point: is it moral for the government to hire people with my money that I disagree with?

No, I got your point, and I dismissed it. YES, it is perfectly moral, and to expect otherwise would be silly. The school I went to, for example, had a liberal Political Science department. You knew who the liberals were, you knew who the conservatives were, and you likewise knew what "school" of polisci they subscribed to. The Business and Public Policy schools, on the other hand, tended to swingmore conservatively. I took classeswith them all, understood their biases, and appreciated them for disclosing those biases.

In that case, I don't understand where you are coming from. While I have not, per say, been to college, I have been looking at colleges' and their professors' websites. My conclusions? Faculity at public universities tend to be more liberal, while faculity at private colleges lean more towards pro-market stances. I generally do not see conservativism in civil rights stances, although opposition to such things as Affirmative Action is more commonplace.

Then you haven't been looking at enough private institutions, and you haven't been looking internally at enough departments and schools within the universities. The Kennedy School, although not Left extreme, is a liberal school that sets the mark for government/polisci programs. And again, you need to distinguish departments. Are you telling me the Biology department at George Mason swings Libertarian? Of course not. The departments you are focusing on, perhapd philosophy, economics, business, political science, history, etc., have hired their faculty for their own reasons. More often than not, they are slightly to fit an ideology, but more importantly to fit a certain "philosophy" that isdebated within the field. I've given the political science example, quantitative versus qualitative research, etc. It's in my experience that schools tend to swing towards a "way" of teaching something, as opposed to a specific ideology....