"Icebound" wrote in message ...

You give our youth way too little credit. They can read President Eisenhower, they can read Ward Churchill, they can
listen to President Bush, and they will do their own research to reach closer to the truth. If it is indeed tripe, if
the position is indefensible... it won't take that long for it to be abandoned by the students. Try to suppress an
idea, no matter how obnoxious, and it raises their suspicion that you have something to hide.

You may brainwash a few to one ideology, and you may brainwash a few to another, but the vast majority will make up
their own mind quite well.

The term "Academic authority" may be applicable to a 10-year-old, but I doubt very much that your average University
student holds ANY prof as being "authority", especially in political and social disciplines.




You've got that right!