Education

A common question is why universities tend to be liberal and one explanation is jealousy based on disbelief. There are 1.4 million college professors and they averaged eight years of school beyond high school at a cost of $150,000. The salaries of those in the humanities are lower than those in business and engineering. Most of the political talk comes from the humanities. These people find it difficult to understand why the rest of the country doesn’t realize that their superior education makes them more qualified to determine what is best for the country. When they see people with far less formal education making more money and having more influence they are dismayed. How could some middle manager or some plumber understand the complexities of the world. In the classroom the teacher is the expert and often corrects students. This has a tendency to carry over into private life.