Reaping the Whirlwind

Let's all think about this for a minute. What are kids taught in school?

I know the rhetoric is that school is the place to teach tolerance. But what that translates into in actual fact is not real tolerance at all. If someone has an unpopular view, that view is suppressed because it is seen as intolerant. Instead of real tolerance, students are taught to conform.

In a culture of conformity of ideas freedom of the press is dangerous. Freedom of expression is seen as intolerance. Freedom of religion becomes freedom from religion. Assembly is only a positive thing if it expresses the views of the majority.

Students today are not taught to interact with opposing views in a spirit of tolerance. In fact the call for tolerance creates intolerance because it is based on this inability to truly interact.

Is it any wonder that students don't feel the first amendment is very important?