Say these two institutions to an ambitious, bushy tailed young high school junior or senior and you'll probably hear a squeak coming from their mouth. They may even blush, as if you muttered their crush's name. If you mention these names to parents whose kids are in the Northeast prep/private school system you might be met with a stare that says "You're one of us." Mention these names to knowing Asian parents they might ask you if you know anyone on the admission counsel.
Both Bowdoin and Swarthmore would probably beat out places like Brown University (a glorified LAC with an Ivy League label), for those familiar with each. *Heck, if my kid wanted an LAC I'd guide them towards Bowdoin and Swarthmore far before any Brown campus tour.
These two institutions are a symbol of what higher education, in the liberal arts sense, has to offer to America's brightest students. But don't get too excited.
Steven Robinson's experience wasn't all very welcoming once he "came out." The NAS report, mentioned within the article, can be found here.
Swarthmore alumnus, Daniel Charette, shared her experience at Swarthmore here.
These institution of higher education offer top-notch liberal arts education, but not what John Henry Newman had in mind. Let me insert Thomas Sowell's thoughts as well. As you can see from comments on Sowell's article, it further proves of how the modern liberal mindset is more of a pathology than an actual mentally stable position. Poster "Stuart L. Riley" shows his disagreement, "Not one citation of anything that can remotely support the idiotic rantings of a lunatic. No supporting facts. Just spouting off insane accusations with no basis in reality. Just the thing we've come to expect from Sowell." (These accusations towards Sowell are nothing new. Go on youtube, or search for the National Review columns he has written, and you'll find the variations of the "lunatic" name calling. It's telling because there's some serious beehive mentality going on.) Upon clicking on his facebook profile I found this -
Not entirely surprising. Riley is a modern day Kool-Aid drinker. But I digress.
Elite, prestigious liberal arts colleges, many of them, are bastions for communists, socialists, the perverted, the amoral and those who despise America despite living in it and benefiting from its higher education system (probably the finest in the world, whether it be private or public institutions). Don't they see the irony? They want no responsibility for the growing amorality that slowly creeps into the lives of the students that sit in front of them; they don't want to answer to the parents who spend handsome amount of money to send their kid to sit there - who just want their kids to achieve that American Dream that they probably never had. They want to sit in their prestigious universities, with their Phds from other prestigious universities, publish "research" that will most likely change traditional social views on societal taboos and support more state driven budget wasting, all the while being so far out-of-touch with the dreaded proletariat. "The masses" is the group that these elite professors despise.
You don't need to have a college degree to know that if the bulk of the social science & humanities professors - regardless whether they teach at a tier 1 or tier 3 institution - were to form a counsel that would be looked to for suggestions, wisdom and insight to the family, intimate/sexual relationships, class and race feuds they'd make the the world into an even more secular, amoral and nihilistic place. They'd probably support single parenthood. No doubt they'd support same-sex relationships and same-sex mirage. They'd legalize all the drugs, make ROTC some sort of "right-wing nut" club if it hasn't already been banned from campus and support "exploring your sexuality and your true, authentic self" to every incoming freshmen.
Would one call this "education"? I'm not sure. If you dig, if you are aware of the modern liberal BS then you might get a far better education at Bowdoin and Swarthmore than "parents were liberal, high school was liberal, I'm liberal, now my college is uber-duper-freakin' liberal" sheltered types (the irony, again). Then again you might walk away saying yourself, if you aren't a modern day liberal, "This is a deformed liberal arts experience."
*Though I do think many professors that teach at these institutions are cowards, idiots and morons once they step out of their specialty (if you focus on queer studies then you're automatically a moron in my book; if you're socialist or communist English teacher then you're a moron in my book; if you're anything like this social science professor you're a moron and a fucking cunt) I think, as noted above, one can receive a decent liberal arts education if you're immune to the modern day liberal BS. But then again, a good percent of the kids entering these institutions are naive, easily impressed, therefore easy to recruit and to mold into "enlightened, open-minded, social 'progressive'" types. If their parents aren't already of that mindset, they'll probably transition into adulthood and hold them - and the communities they original came from - in contempt.
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