Opinion | Campus crybullies banish liberal education from American universities WashTimesOpEd
Much has been written about Stanford Law School’s recent embarrassment, which stands out in a long parade of them because a diversity, equity and inclusion administrator joined students in verbally abusing a federal judge. With law students chanting and shouting to prevent his remarks, Judge Kyle Duncan of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked a school administrator to restore order to the classroom.
The incident is a vivid reminder that “woke” ideology is a threat to collegiate learning as we know it. Here we have aspiring lawyers at one of the country’s most prestigious law schools refusing to learn about the federal court system from a federal judge because they disagreed with him on an entirely unrelated matter.
The harm done will be borne by students in the short term and by American society for decades to come in serious and concrete ways. “Woke” ideology purports to answer all the big questions in a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines, making the intellectual work that once defined a liberal education unnecessary. Instead of learning to think, students graduate accustomed to reading like plundering soldiers: collecting evidence that supports a predetermined faith position and rejecting data that raises difficult questions.
Third, college campuses should expose students to a wide variety of perspectives and viewpoints. Interacting with — and even befriending — those with whom one vehemently disagrees teaches students that people of goodwill can disagree respectfully. This behavior builds tolerance for a range of viewpoints and can teach students to err on the side of assuming good intentions.
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