It’s a reality most of us know is true, but few of us probably fully appreciate: The modern university campus is a training camp for radical liberal ideology, specifically lawlessness, intolerance and rebellion.

Honestly, it took me about 10 minutes to find the following three stories, all of which were published this week.

In America, Students4Justice, an activist group at the University of Michigan, is demanding a permanent designated space “on central campus for black students and students of color to organize and do social justice work.” This request was made despite the fact that right now the university is constructing a $10 million center for black students. But to Students4Justice, this isn’t enough.

“[We need a] space solely dedicated to community organizing and social justice work specifically for people of color,” the group stated. This organization, ironically, has criticized the University of Michigan for failing to create an environment that “engages in diversity, equity and inclusion.” Meanwhile, Students4Justice is demanding a space be set aside for use solely by students of certain skin color.

Here in the United Kingdom, the Telegraph earlier this week ran a story by a conservative student at the University of Sussex exposing the oppression of students considered conservative. Harry Howard penned the article after seeing a poster on campus inviting faculty to an informal discussion about “dealing with right-wing attitudes and politics in the classroom.”

Howard said the poster is notable for two reasons:

The first thing to note is the stunning willingness (or perhaps total indifference) of those behind the poster to reveal—in a public space—a clear bias against anyone with right-wing opinions. Second, there was clearly an implicit assumption that all who saw the poster would consider themselves on the left, and would equally not be concerned at the shameful intellectual laziness of using the term “right wing” as a synonym for “disagreeable opinions.”

Howard assumed the poster was the brainchild of a misinformed assistant or student. Turns out, it was crafted by Prof. Jan Selby, the director of Sussex Center for Conflict and Security Research and former head of the International Relations department at Sussex.

There was a time when university campuses encouraged free speech, intellectual curiosity and open debate. Those days, it seems, are over.

Howard continued:

The central point is that universities should be intellectually diverse from top to bottom, rather than echo chambers of left-wing opinion. Whilst there are some small, encouraging signs of open-mindedness amongst the student body, there seems to be a worrying aversion to the right amongst academics, and a similarly disturbing desire to control dissenting opinions that are considered beyond the pale.

Finally, on Monday, Trinity College in Dublin was forced to cancel an event with Israeli ambassador Ze’ev Boker due to protests outside the lecture hall in which Boker was scheduled to speak. University officials were unable to move about 40 pro-Palestinian protesters. During the protest, which was organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, protesters chanted genocidal remarks.

To its credit, Trinity College expressed regret at the incident and said that “it will remain a home for debate and we will do everything possible to make sure that efforts to suppress the free exchange of ideas do not succeed.” On the other hand, why didn’t university officials call the police?

What will it take for more people to recognize that something is desperately wrong with higher education?

In the June 1966 issue of the Plain Truth, Herbert W. Armstrong wrote that higher education was “fast approaching a crisis.” In “Recapture True Values,” he wrote:

Educational institutions, generally, have grown so large that the regimented assembly-line processes have replaced individualized instruction. The student has lost his identity. Development of personality and initiative is largely sacrificed.Moral bars have toppled. University campus students say bluntly that with the waning of church and parental influence, “We decide for ourselves on codes of morality.” Stuffing minds with crass materialism, while moral, spiritual and emotional development is neglected, produces unbalanced education and is criminally dangerous.

The approach by higher education—even as far back as the 1960s—was “criminally dangerous.” The university experience enables lawless behavior and thinking. Today, this “criminally dangerous” spirit prevails in our institutions of higher learning, but it’s much more toxic. The madness that unfolded at the University of Michigan, the University of Sussex and Trinity College this week was facilitated, either directly or indirectly, by professors and administrators who went to college in the 1960s. Look at the fruits of their education: lawlessness, intolerance and chaos.

And it’s exactly these “educated” people who run our world.

If you’re interested in discovering more about the fundamental issues with modern education, watch “The Real Problem With Higher Education.”