Letters to the Editor
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Mr Humidty
But the more important reason is a good education. By the time you've gone through Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Princeton or even less fancy places, you have instilled into you the understanding there are certain things it just wouldn't do to say. You believe that you're being free and objective, whereas in fact, you're just repeating state propaganda. It's like Orwell said, you just have inculcated into you that there are certain things it wouldn't do to think."
Exactly, education today is far less about learning *how* to think than it is about being told *what* to think.
Granted, the instructions on what to think can be subtle but that doesn't mean they aren't being communicated.
This is probably the main reason I'm often glad I never pursued a formal education.