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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Define conservative. By definition, education learning new things, new approaches, meeting new people and ideas tends to be a liberal tenet. [/quote]

One would think so. Unfortunately the progressive left has forgotten this. Statistics show they are the most intolerant, and now Democrats are more likely to refuse to date or be friends with conservatives and boasts of cutting off family and old friends over views is much more common on the left than the right. So I'd be careful in making these kinds of assumptions. Any pragmatic person who's been through the elite Ivory tower knows they are the most ideologically rigid and unforgiving of any higher education institutions.

I don't know what OP is looking for, but it she or he is looking for the old fashioned concept of liberal, aka a genuine tolerance of diversity of viewpoints, best places are probably the big state universities and southern schools. Faculty will be D voters but students are all across the spectrum with minimal pressure to hide their views.

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No, in any University, all viewpoints are taught and explored. I don't know where you get the idea that this isn't true. The only 'viewpoints' you would find little tolerance for are racist, misogynist, and other discriminatory falsehoods -- but even those viewpoints (which are neither liberal nor conservative, but just morally wrong) are absolutely explored and discussed (and hopefully, for the peace of the whole world, rejected). Do you expect anyone to think those positions are OK?

There is a huge gulf between [b]"women should have the option to stay at home because there are various benefits to it, but also the option to work, and public policy should support either decision because both have societal benefits (liberal)[/b] and women who chose a professional career  “choose a path to misery”  "instead of starting a family and having children” (JD Vance). 
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DP.  I don't know *any* liberal woman who believes this.  According to the liberal women I know, if you are a mother with kids who chooses to be a SAHM, you are a waste of space.  And we see that very unfortunate attitude all the time right here on DCUM, a liberal bastion.[/quote]

Uhm, I think mother usually denotes with kids though I don't know are you worried about JD Vance's "cat ladies?" I am a liberal mom with decades in the C Suite and now a board member on a few public boards. I made the decision to be a SAHM for my DC's last two years of HS, I wanted that for my child and me, my DH also stayed home for a few years with our DC and in between we had the most amazing nanny.  I don't criticize others for their choices or make assumptions about the financial situations that limit those choices.  At no time have I ever been treated as a waste of space nor do I treat others as though they are. 
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