Would you send your kid to Liberty University?
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Anonymous
| Just curious. A friend's son has committed to going; son is very religious and conservative; friend kind of the opposite. She respects his beliefs and doesn't want them to limit where he goes, but is personally not in favor of his choice. I'd especially like to hear from conservative religious folks who may be weighing the high ed appointment in this potential choice. |
Anonymous
| That's interesting. I'd need to really look at the school closely before I would agree. I am all for respecting beliefs, but I don't want them learning falsehoods. I don't know enough about the nitty gritty of Liberty to say. |
Anonymous
| No. Follow Kevin Roose on twitter. Read his book An Unlikely Disciple. They use workbooks. And they teach some crazy shit. |
Anonymous
| I would imagine a degree from Liberty would severely limit one's job prospects outside the evangelical bubble. |
Anonymous
| I'd probably steer them to other christian school. BYU (though mormon) would be a better choice. |
Anonymous
| They don't teach basic science (ex: evolution). No way would I pay a dime to them. There are plenty of Christian colleges where you can get a good education. Liberty is not one of them. |
Anonymous
| I would make sure my kids were informed about potential downsides but where they go is up to them as they will be paying for it. |
Anonymous
| no. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
+1 I was raised in an evangelical church, and attended the religious school associated with it. I'm still undoing the damage of that education, which was blatantly counterfactual about basic scientific truths. We were literally taught, in high school, that men had one fewer sets of ribs than women. It's cruel to give a child (or young adult) that kind of clearly false information and then just send them out into the world to be mocked. |
Anonymous
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PaleoCon here
I'm ultraconservative, and I didn't even look at Liberty. The academics don't seem strong at all, it's run by the Fallwell's (who I don't much like), and they seem WAY too obsessed with money.( The enrollment has gotten huge and it's endowment is now over 1 billion) I also heard that a lot of kids who go there attend because they're parents force them to. I don't want to go to school with a bunch of guys who didn't even want to go there. Liberty is also too politically focused for me. I love studying political philosophy, but I don't want my school being in the news every day because some candidate came to speak there, or because the President of the university made a dumb comment.(I'm as pro-gun as you can get, but allowing students to have guns on campus is just insane) Libery has a reputation as a fundamentalist university affiliated with the Republican Party. As an intellectual conservative (Christian) on the Far-Right, that didn't appeal to me. If you wnat a good Christian school, look at Grove City. |
Anonymous
| No--are they even accredited? |
Anonymous
| I'd say he can go if he wants to pay for it. No way on god's green earth would I pay for that "education" |
Anonymous
| A Christian university like Georgetown, vs a Christian university like Liberty...hmm. |
Anonymous
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Maybe you wouldn't send your kid there, but its president is about to be confirmed as the head of the Dept. of Education's higher ed task force.
So there's going to be a lot Liberty out there for all of us with college students to grapple with. |