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Perhaps our youth-oriented radicals do not realize that their claims of insight are far from unique adventures and ideals have inspired men and events throughout history. Some of our most creative ideas and practical inventions have come because a man had experience and insight gained from years of living. That is like dumping last year’s automobile because it is not 'new,' or considering people 'old-fashioned' because they are over 30 years old. But responsibility always has been a factor in making constructive change a reality. Our nation is derived of different ideas and a competitive spirit. The breakdown of the school is the only achievement-if one feels this is a value.

Serious consideration of contemporary values and judgments does not come in the form of riots, burning, and other antisocial activities. 'But,' you say, 'isn’t this what it is all about in the campus mood today?' I doubt it. There is no 'safe' campus if one equates safety and security with learning fundamentals and being free to think and experience new ideas. Such radicalism on campus is perhaps a sad commentary on the present educational atmosphere of permissive ideas and professors.

In fact, it is a consequence of their 'drop out' awareness that makes one fearful of the kind of leadership potential coming from these anarchy-oriented visionaries. Simons is both a teacher in the New York City public schools and a graduate student at New York University.Īs a member of the 'freaked out' and 'turned on' generation, I find little comfort in the mental attitudes of some of my peers.

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