Higher Education? - A Poem
Ideological conformity
Academic conditioning
The open-minded youth
Needing guidance
Offensive viewpoints
Critical appraisal
Questions
Challenges
They’ve renamed them
Hate Speech
The Constitution you say?
Not in the classroom
Censorship
Speech codes
Don’t offend
Or be unorthodox
You’ll be silenced
Then shamed
Rounded up like cattle
Driven away
Ridiculed
In the name of Education
Or indoctrination
Who holds the power?
Not a student one
Reasoning won’t overcome
Passions and paychecks
Funding from someone
Materialism, sexism, feminism
Darwinism, and rationalism
Social studies
Political Correctness
Talking, talking, shouting
No voice but their own
The echoes forever haunting
Once hallowed halls
Where matriculation
Meant challenging the norm
Opinions without bias
Worthwhile learning
No topic taboo
No theory settled
No ridicule
Intellectual gain
Without repercussion
Minds molded
Leaders, Scientists, Teachers
Doctors, Journalists
Philosophers and Poets
