The Fruits of Their Labor

When I was taking Education classes in college two recurring themes among my professors were that nothing was truly right or wrong for its own sake, and that you could be anything you wanted to be. As you might imagine, I argued with them constantly.

It's no wonder teachers can't teach. There's no true subject matter. The kind of subjectivity found in no-right-or-wrong lessons is profound in its lack of depth, and simply begs for poor thinking (if it actually invites any thinking at all). Add on be anything you want you be and do you know what you get? Students who don't have to care about reality.

Is it a wonder today that we have little respect for others, and feel entitled to act however we please? Can we expect kids raised that nothing is right or wrong be civil to others? Can we expect them to think things through when they don't have to, nothing being right on its own? 

Hell no, as me Grandpa Joe would say.

There is right and there is wrong. Until you accept that truism there's no reason for respect. You can't even presume to command it precisely because it does not exist, if there is no right and no wrong.

You cannot be absolutely anything you want to be. You cannot be the impossible: men are men and women are women for example, and that's it. End of discussion. Next question.

Charlie Kirk was trying to point out such obvious truths. We should be too.