One of the telling signs carried in a Tea Party demonstration said: “Spread my work ethic, not my wealth.”
It may be better to teach people how to fish, rather than giving them fish — but too many politicians give them fish, in order to get their votes.
* University students rioting against tuition increases on both sides of the Atlantic are painful signs of the degeneracy of our times.
The idea that taxpayers owe it to you to pay for what you want suggests that much of today’s education fails to instill reality, and instead panders to a self-centered sense of entitlement to what other people have earned.
* More disturbing than any of the issues of our time are the many people who debate those issues as contests in talking points, rather than as attempts to get at the truth.
Too many people debate as if the point is to show who is smarter, rather than which conclusion is correct.
* Many parents of college-bound students wonder whether there are still any places where most of the professors are teaching instead of indoctrinating.
Actually, there are more than 50 colleges with a “green light” rating on that score in the huge college guide, “Choosing the Right College.”