Warning: Learning Might Happen: via instapundit I found this curious item about a class at Berkeley. You don't need to read all of it; just skip to the quoted part:

This course is an elective. That means you are not required to enroll. It is a course predicated on the conviction that students have not been trained to think coherently, rationally and empirically about the modern world. It conveys non-standard opinions, which you are not required to accept, but with which you must deal.

Whoa. Bitter. Necessary?