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Letter: Young see higher ed and say ‘Why not?’
Op-Ed · September 24, 2015
There is something about education that Terry Branstad, his brand of Republicans and the manipulators that fouled the process for selecting a new University of Iowa president do not like; it is that young people can think and question in the same manner as did a young John F. Kennedy, quoting George Bernard Shaw, that in his time said “Some men see things as they are and say “Why?’; I dream things that never were and say, ‘Why not?’”
This younger generation and today’s professors and researchers are capable of challenging what is and exploring those ever better ways and as such THEY ARE HIGHER EDUCATION.
And as such it is what has moved cultures forward in making the kind of progress that freed common mankind to do uncommon things that lifted humanity out of the Dark Ages of a long and dismal period of stagnation that benefitted the lives of a ruling few at the crushing cost of feudal servitude and suffering of the many.
This educational destructive effort comes of the ranks of a Republican Party that holds fealty to the few and ever fewer hoarders of the nation’s and world’s wealth.
If they could they would have others be party to the destruction of education as the nurturing gift that an older generation has long bequeathed to the younger generation in anticipation of them being one of even more remarkable accomplishment.
This is the “idea thing” of progress that a conservative fears so much that he obstructs any and all efforts of WE THE PEOPLE in progressively putting one foot ahead of another on a path of no more than courage to take two steps forward at risk of one step back and oft bounding along in great leaps of progress that has been our nation’s much-admired way that got its start with Colonial Americans coming to a New World and setting themselves and their posterity to work building the land of the free and home of the brave that with each younger generation has kept the promise of an ever better American Dream.
Sam Osborne,
West Branch
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