fear of ideas, ancient library

Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.


Even a humble community college can make people nervous. There are books here and they have ideas on almost every page.

Politicians accuse each other of being from elite colleges, even if they went to Harvard or Yale themselves. They pander to the Swamp People and Alien Hunters in all of us. Today we learned about the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s. They named it themselves.

There are parents who worry the kids they send of to college won’t be the same when they come back home. They should be so lucky.

Pat Shiplett

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