If the speaker will agree to questions afterwards or better yet, to a debate forum, students are better served.

All ideas spring from a combination of environmental and genetic experiences of the person. Singly they may not solve a problem, but united with others may meet with success, or a truth.

John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" its second chapter: The Freedom of Thought and Discussion, almost makes it an imperative for each of us to express out thoughts and to listen to those of others, as a way of discovering truth.

n the old days, a speaker could go from campus to campus and his speech be welcomed anew at each one. Today's speed with which communication travels a speech made in Massachussetts is made in California, virtually at the same time. Unreasoned vitriol travels fastest.

Mixed with impassioned or, if one insists, passionate discussion, it can be reduced to acceptable norms of argument and see sheathed the sharpened blades of unwelconme.