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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

The right to question ideas

The internet's "History Alice" has a new book.

Many of our students are unfamiliar with their Constitution and its enumerated rights, never mind this one. And never mind their president.

"The rise of the teenager in Britain largely stemmed from American culture. In 1945, The New York Times marked this growing group with an article entitled ‘A teen-age bill of rights’. This was a ‘ten-point charter framed to meet the problems of growing youth’, which included ‘the right to a “say” about his own life’, ‘the right to question ideas’ and ‘the right to make mistakes, to find out for himself’."

"Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives" by Alice Loxton: https://a.co/4tH27BC

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