Our very own Harry Boyte’s article in The Hill is well worth reading.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a teaser:<\/p>\n
“In response to the wave of student protests this fall about racial discrimination and other issues on America\u2019s campuses, some propose speech codes and other measures to turn campuses into safe spaces.\u00a0 Others react with disgust. \u201cThis isn\u2019t the behavior of people who are capable of weighing opposing ideas,\u201d writes Glenn Reynolds in USA Today <\/em>after protesters disrupted a free speech forum at Yale. \u201cSpoiled children shouldn\u2019t vote.\u201d \u00a0Reynolds proposes raising the voting age to 25.<\/p>\n What critics and supporters of students have in common in our therapeutic age is little respect for students\u2019 own agency, their potential to work through differences. Twenty five years of experience with a youth civic education initiative called Public Achievement have taught me an opposite lesson: young people are hungry for opportunities to learn the skills and concepts to handle conflicts and make constructive change.”\u00a0 Harry C. Boyte<\/p>\n