Certainly free speech is a paramount requisite for learning and so is an educational system that understands that. But even requisites have pre- requisites. Students and educators need a decent philosophy that commits to learning, growing, committing. And inside, or beside, that, intellectual integrity is required. The schools are being beaten down, along with so many of our institutions, about any stands they take. Liberal - No GOOD, rotten, criminal, SOFT. Conservative, NO GOOD, greedy, dictatorial, power hungry, dishonest. The Churches are teaching politics and they don't have the slightest idea what politics is. It's the opposite of faith. It's containing truth, honor, MORALITY, and compromising. Who is without sin? Who is without gaps of honesty? Who is superior to anybody else? Who is still looking for the truth? They know they already have it. "I AM RIGHT" is not an answer to anything with trust, integrity, and respect for other, even flawed, opinions. Truth makes you free. Makes a society free. Dishonesty, is not strength. It's suicide for a culture. You don't really know very much. Nobel prizes are in small, relatively closed , disciplines. Demand intellectual honesty, intellectual integrity. But, like mathematics, not every one studies it.
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