Both liberals and conservatives have their own fatal flaws, as authority figures nobly legislating away our individual liberties for our own good.

A la Philip Zimbardo, I want all political creatures to get far enough outside their political "situations" to see this objectively and compassionately as thinkers, rather than from the emotionally fraught power-struggle roles they play within the situation. That is the tremendous value of unschooling for example -- after several years of having NO role in schooling whatsoever, it is astounding what you finally begin to see and understand about all the roleplayers within education politics.

In another new front-page post, "aconservatoryofone" highlights the Democratic-sponsored bill in MO to legislate "intellectual diversity" at the college level. Sounds like a worthy cause, right?

Trouble is, it's like hitting kids to get them to stop hitting or showing your love with causing them pain to save their souls, or forcing standardized lessons on kids so they can learn to think freely and uniquely. I commented to that effect:

If you believe in intellectual diversity, do NOT legislate it! But.
Honestly hoping to persuade rather than offend all the fine minds reading at the Kitchen, I have to say that intellectual diversity through individual freedom to learn and think as an individual, is a tough principle to integrate in one's own progressive belief structure without ponying up an overt willingness to oppose compulsory schooling of any kind.

Everything about public schooling --NCLB and state education testing and curriculum is "standardized" rather than fostering diversity of knowledge work. So it should be no surprise that whole generations of adults have learned to see college that way too. *WE* TAUGHT THEM THAT!

Or maybe I should just quote Marvin Minsky in Wired:
"I once peeled a label off a London bus.
It read: MIND YOUR HEAD."