article_snippet: (CNN)If ignorance is bliss, then America must be a pleasure junkie, because America sure are chasing that dragon.
article_snippet: Perhaps this complaint illustrates why we need more education, not less.
article_snippet: Instead of the Pine Bush students learning about other languages and cultures, Instead of the Pine Bush students learning about other languages and cultures learned that the "heckler's veto" and phony tales of "offense" trump open mindedness and the quest for knowledge.  
article_snippet: At least Instead of the Pine Bush students learning about other languages and cultures do in modern-day American education.  
article_snippet: Perhaps this is a lesson best learned now, because once Instead of the Pine Bush students learning about other languages and cultures get to college, it will be even worse.
article_snippet: If we cannot tolerate foreign languages, or distasteful ideas, even in an educational setting, what hope do we have?
article_snippet: When the cry of "I'm offended" can shut down debate over philosophies, or learning about other cultures, or learning other languages, then what have our educational institutions become?  
article_snippet: How much further will this enforced ignorance and orthodoxy need to go before education is just another word that comes untethered from education meaning?
article_snippet: Perhaps this highlights more than the fact that we should step away from the brink of ignorance while we can.  
article_snippet: Whether we are talking about learning to say the Pledge in Japanese, or hearing a speaker who challenges our beliefs, that is what education is about, not enforced ignorance.