Silverglate: Colleges must educate, not indoctrinate

The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana might have been describing the current turmoil on our college campuses when he famously opined: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” College administrators have forgotten past decades when political turmoil reigned. Consider the decade of the 1960s and the Vietnam War. But it is insufficient to assess that national academic trauma without noting one reason why Vietnam-era campuses were roiling with protests: Faculty members, it was believed (and not without reason) were, to one degree or another, consultants to the...