Today’s “must read” article:

“If you want to start a new society, like a school or a club, there is always unease, sometimes an outcry, and once in a while the government decides to attack you with lawsuits or the like. We hear speeches like this:
 
“Isn’t there someone, some demographic, some ethnic minority, you’ve forgotten? Where are your wheelchair ramps and signs; where are the counsellors; do you plan on leaving the learning disabled behind; there are too few speedbumps in your parking lot; these men you read… their race, their ideas, their sex, their excellence; have you thought about representation of diverse peoples and talents in this curriculum? Your curriculum looks like it is for the fulfillment of the students, but shouldn’t it be about ‘striving to change the world’1? Shouldn’t education be for the oppressed?”