[a_Turk]

Schools are a place where people are allowed to be wrong in the quest for knowledge. Schools should be on the side of one thing only: learning. You must be allowed to be wrong, sothat you may fail, and thereby learn.

[rageaholic]

Schools should be on the side of one thing only: learning.

Sorry, you are wrong. Schools are for teaching. Teaching means discipline and guidance and the instillment of positive values. Jihad is not a postive value and has no place in western society.

Anybody who wants "learning only" can get a public library card for free.

[Mortimer Snavely]

What has happened in American Universities is that, far from allowing sober reflection and discussion of all sides to all issues in an ivory tower far from the raucous crowd of public outcry, free from the passions related to any given issue, the University has become rather an agent of social change, essentially fusing itself with the most extreme elements of any given radical position.

The University has become a hermetically sealed universe where only views congruent with the liberal-socialist axis hold sway, and conservative thinkers, students, and teachers are ostracized, and all in the name of "diversity."

Far from opening the minds of students to other ideas, the function of the University has changed to the chief advocate of ideas contrary to American ideology as laid down in the Declaration of Independence.

Learning doesn't occur so much as indoctrination. The University has fundamentally changed over the last forty years or so.