Robert Kraft on Columbia Protests: ‘It’s Very Sad to Me to See the Faculty … Trying to Teach Young People What to Think, Rather than How to Think’

‘[Columbia] was such an open forum when I went there’

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KRAFT: “When I went there you know, it was during the Vietnam War and free speech prevailed, and people express their opinion. And they didn't cover their faces. And there was accountability. And there -- there wasn't the anger and hate that exists now on campuses. And it's very sad to me to see the faculty taking strong positions and doing that and sort of trying to teach young people what to think rather than how to think, and have the openness.”

 

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