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Re:Going to university does not broaden the mind by analog31 on Friday November 23, 2018 @10:11PM (#18520253)
It would actually surprise me if any university had the ability to impose an overall bias in one of those directions over the other. There would seem to be too much variation among the individual professors, teachers, students, etc.

Anecdotally, I live in the shadow of a Big Ten university, so I know a lot of academics, and I don't think any of them have expressed a "follow the rules" approach that I was able to discern. Likewise for the people I know who are K-12 teachers, private music teachers, and so forth.

Re:Going to university does not broaden the mind by WalterBright on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:31AM (#18520622)
I don't know about any university, but at Caltech it was consistent that everything used was derived from first principles. There wasn't any "trust me, use this rule".
Re:Going to university does not broaden the mind by mclehman on Saturday November 24, 2018 @11:44AM (#18522788)
That wasn't consistent at my school, but classes that did derive everything from first principles were consistently the best ones.
Re:Going to university does not broaden the mind by analog31 on Saturday November 24, 2018 @09:32PM (#18525101)
I went to a small religious college, and my experience was similar to yours.

Edit: There were some exceptions, such as my double bass lessons.