College can push you toward a spirit of curiosity, or it can reaffirm your preexisting convictions and confirm your blinkered worldview. It’s not as if college students are mere lumps of moral and intellectual clay that can be shaped and formed at will by professors and administrators, or by one another. Many students walk into college echo chambers, and very little about their education causes them to question their beliefs, much less change their minds. Although there were certainly liberal-minded students and professors, much of my education felt like training for activism more than inquiry. After all, what value is free speech if you’ve figured out the most important answers to the most important questions in life?