{"id":2247082,"date":"2024-05-17T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-teachable-moment-for-our-universities-and-their-students\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T16:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T20:56:18","slug":"a-teachable-moment-for-our-universities-and-their-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-teachable-moment-for-our-universities-and-their-students\/","title":{"rendered":"An Educational Opportunity for Universities and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-teachable-moment-for-our-universities-and-their-students%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247082&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses the lack \u200bof discipline among college students, \u200dthe\u2064 importance of \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/project-veritas-strips-cnn-naked\/\" title=\"Project Veritas Strips CNN Naked\">free speech<\/a>, and the responsibility of\u2063 university leaders in upholding the law and promoting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/removing-the-confederate-memorial-at-arlington-isnt-about-racial-reconciliation-its-about-political-power\/\" title=\"Removing The Confederate Memorial At Arlington Isn\u2019t About Racial Reconciliation, It\u2019s About Political Power\">civic virtues<\/a>. It emphasizes the need\u2062 for a balance between\u2064 free speech and legal boundaries on campuses,\u200d with examples \u2062of universities that\u2062 exemplify rational\u200b leadership. Actions against\u2062 disruptive\u200c behavior, including expulsion and\u2062 legal consequences,\u2064 are highlighted as necessary measures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><b><i><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When college and university students \u2014 whose historical and constitutional obliviousness is matched only by their self-assured morality of outrage and entitlement \u2014 face no discipline from the adults who have abandoned education in favor of indoctrination, the barbaric antics now on display are the inevitable result.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The worst, and perhaps only, lesson these students have learned is that speech is violence if they disagree with it, and violence is speech if it serves their cause. The Marxists\u2019 \u201clong march through the institutions\u201d may be a pyrrhic victory ending in the destruction of the very institutions they sought to control, if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-jacky-rosen-demands-comprehensive-review-of-university-harassment-policies-over-antisemitism\/\" title=\"Sen. Jacky Rosen calls for a thorough examination of university harassment policies in response to incidents of antisemitism\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-investigating-universities-over-radical-ideas-imported-from-the-united-states\/\" title=\"France Investigating Universities Over \u2018Radical\u2019 Ideas \u2018Imported From The United States\u2019\">university presidents<\/a> fail<\/a> their students again by not enforcing sane policies and the law.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purpose of education is to instill in the next generation the civic virtues necessary to live as free men among free men. On many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secretary-of-state-michael-pompeo-time-to-put-wokeism-to-sleep\/\" title=\"Secretary of State Michael Pompeo: Time to 'Put Wokeism to Sleep'\">university campuses today<\/a>, we see the result of abandoning those fundamental precepts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free speech is an essential component of a free society. Such a statement is as self-evident a truth as those named in our Declaration of Independence. There is no \u201chate speech\u201d exception to the First Amendment, nor should there be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To revile another person, a fellow image bearer of God, for his ethnicity or religion is arguably the lowest form of human speech and indicative of a much deeper stain on the human condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  So said the central figure in the history of the world, a Jewish carpenter, in His most famous sermon. The Judeo-Christian principles so prevalent in the minds and writings of the founding generation led to the establishment of our nation not as a theocracy, but a republic. One in which our Constitution is recognized as the highest civil law of the land, empowering government to protect the God-given rights of the people.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anti-Semitic speech, as ignorant and hateful as it is, remains protected speech. But that does not give the speakers free rein to incite violence, trespass on school property, damage or destroy university property, or physically harass and intimidate Jewish students or block them from entering campus, as we have seen at Columbia, UCLA, and elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University presidents should use their authority to distinguish between simply despicable words and clearly illegal actions \u2014 and act accordingly. Some of the most valuable lessons in life are learned the hard way, and university presidents should be teaching some of their students a hard and valuable lesson right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Chicago, and the University of Florida stand out as examples of rational leadership demonstrating the proper balance between respect for free speech and the rule of law.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There is no right to a college education in our Constitution, or in the \u201claws of nature and of nature\u2019s God.\u201d To foster an environment of learning and peaceful interaction requires discipline of those who disrupt that environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expulsion from the university is a necessary first step, while criminal penalties for criminal action can be left to local prosecutors. Anyone guilty of a crime while here as a guest of our nation through a student visa should lose the privilege immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aristotle once said, \u201cIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.\u201d Centuries later, our nation\u2019s poet laureate, Robert Frost, would echo Aristotle when he stated, \u201cEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Judging by this standard, many of our universities have failed to truly educate our youth. Trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speech codes have sprung up like weeds to choke out free expression and civil discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What we are witnessing on college campuses across our nation is the fundamental misunderstanding of the right to free speech and its accompanying duties and limits. Worse, we\u2019re seeing that combined with indoctrination into the toxic, Marxist ideology incompatible with a free, civil society and a constitutional republic. Those who have sewn to the wind for decades are now reaping the inevitable whirlwind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet, even amidst this chaos, there is a teachable moment to restore ordered liberty and return to the classical liberal tradition. These principles, deeply rooted in American soil, are not dormant. If we muster the moral courage and clarity to cultivate them, our nation can renew the bloom of Western Civilization and human flourishing once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> * * * <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lathan Watts is vice president of public affairs for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adflegal.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alliance Defending Freedom<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ADFLegal\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@ADFLegal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When university students, lacking historical and constitutional knowledge but filled with self-righteous indignation and entitlement, go unchecked by educators focused on indoctrination, it leads to the current disturbing behaviors. 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