“We like to believe that we are teaching this open-mindedness in our schools and colleges, but the mounting evidence is that we are graduating a great many bat-blind ideologues who have no interest in thinking—except when thinking of new ways of enforcing unquestioning obedience to their preferred beliefs. We see this demonstrated daily in the campus speech codes, mandated diversity pledges, stilted classroom discussions, and intrusive armies of DEI bureaucrats that are all enforcing a hive mind conformity which is antithetical to the thoughtful and unfettered conversations we must have regarding the many pressing problems facing America today.”
(I wrote this roughly three years ago. The academic extremists have slithered into the shadows in the face of the bright light shined upon them by the Trump administration, but tenure and civil service protections mean they are still spreading their poison in our nation’s classrooms—and we all pay the price.)
Being educated has many components: a broad base of factual knowledge, the ability to extract and use pertinent information from written or