Free speech or Free hate

Submitted by Chuck Edmonds (United States), Nov 15, 2002 at 03:10

But it's not really free, is it? What does a year at Harvard go for these days? I believe all freshmen should be required to take a course in Logic before being exposed to the likes of Noam Chomsky. Perhaps during orientation for such a logic class, students should be encouraged to use logical reasoning techniques to question "even the teachings of your Professors."

A required assignment could be to read a madrassah class transcript (in translation) and determine if the transcipt represents logic. Maybe a simpler quesion for the first day would be to determine the logic of petitioning a nation to change its policies by murdering 3000 of its citizens.

How about a bill of rights? They seem popular lately. We have them in healthcare and even in the offices of bail bondsmen. One of the rights might be quesioning Professors of the policies of a University without fear of reprisal.

I forgot - what does it cost to attend Harvard for a year? If my child should ever achieve admission to an esteemed university, I'd want that University to be as far from Palo Alto as possible.

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