One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Let's face it: every campus has its share of students who can't quite comprehend that extreme political correctness is often born of the same intolerance and anti-intellectualism as standard-issue bigotry.
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
I would say for the young: Don't be straight jacketed by ideology. Don't be driven by a structure of ideas.
When I went to school, it was radical just to be involved in anything.
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.