Freedom …

… “No proven Communist should hold a position at Stanford.” Yet Victor Arnautoff did, and scored a victory for academic freedom. | The Book Haven.

Here’s why San Francisco School Board should be sacked, every single one of them: They have failed their students. They district has failed to “educate” them, in a way that should be part of any sound humanities curriculum. Facing complicated emotions and objectionable ideas is part of it. Learning to empathize with others is part of what history and great literature teaches. Kids can learn to shape their emotions – an important life skill. However, the operating paradigm here seems to be  that the students’ feelings are objective and immutable, and that art, along with the effort and skill and time of the artist, must give way before them.