Brain Washing University Style

SEE HERE What is supposed to happen at a university? That's a question worthy of some serious thought. Is it to get your ticket punched in the form of a diploma so you can get a job? A lot of people think so and that's probably why, in part, that education is in such sad shape these days. The very word "education" comes from Latin and means literally to be led out. What are you led out of? Well a few answers are ignorance, darkness, slavery. Perhaps the single most important aspect is to learn how to be liberated from the slavery of other men's thoughts. In other words learning to think for yourself and to learn on your own. You're not educated if you're merely indoctrinated. Indeed indoctrination is the opposite of education. The Liberal Arts tend to be much maligned in our current society and that is partly due to the fact that in the popular mind freedom has replace liberty and the two ideas are very different. Freedom had an earlier name, "license" which mean someone who did just what they wanted with no constraints. That is a perverse idea of freedom, for it is merely a person who is a slave to his passions. That is not freedom but a form of slavery. Liberty is the freedom and ability to do as you ought. It is the source of virtue and the necessary means of achieving a just and peaceful society. We have largely lost it and are sinking everywhere into license and slavery.