Professor Wax at the University of Pennsylvania was rebuked by the administration for publishing some conservative suggestions for making US society better.

I think people should be entitled to make such statements, and we should judge them on their merits.

People will respect education when education brings them either respect or the opportunity to enter a profession.

I strongly believe that people should not have children unless they can afford to raise the children properly — but punishing poor people for having children tends to imply punishing the children, and it isn't the children's fault. The best way to discourage overreproduction is to make effective birth control available gratis.

As for respecting authority, let's have authority that can earn some respect. It's hard to argue for respecting violent thugs, or court systems that treat poor people as money trees, or a president that got into office through cheating.