A quote from the book Utopia Paradox as follows: “The greatest cure for prejudice is education. When you went to college, were you ever told ‘don’t let them brainwash you into being a liberal?’”
I felt embarrassed to reply, seeing how she’d already proven me wrong once. “Yeah, from my dad—once or twice.”
She looked excited, eager to talk about it more. “There is a correlation between education and a more liberal worldview, generally. The more educated people become, the wider their view of the world is and the more their biases are rounded-out. We all have implicit biases; no one has a perfect view of the world. However, when we let those biases take over our views, they start to change our behaviors and actions. […] Having an implicit bias isn’t the problem itself. The problems come up once we start acting on them.”
If you tell your children not to listen to new ideas then YOU are the one brainwashing them, forcing them to fit into the mold of your preferred worldview.
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