An Investor’s Business Daily editorial from March 12 discusses the recent findings by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute that more than 58 percent of a large sample of college professors said that it was important to mold students into social-change agents.

I doubt that the sort of change many of those professors have in mind is the restoration of property rights and freedom of action that have been eroding in the U.S. for many decades. The change they envision is more of the politicization of society where individual liberty is increasingly trumped by the supposed need for control by the state.

I suspect that’s why Obama wants to see students kept in school longer — so more will absorb the collectivistic notions that are widely taught as truth.