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The following is abridged from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College seminar in Rancho Mirage, California, on February 18, 2003.

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Education in the Internet Age

I was first introduced to Hillsdale College and its speaker tradition in 1985, when I was 14 years old. I had recently enrolled at a private boarding school that occupied a converted Jesuit monastery atop a hill in the Oregon countryside. It was a fall day, and I was in the school library working on an assignment. After a while, I glanced around and noticed the library magazine rack nearby. Among the current periodicals, the school kept a stack of Imprimis issues. I picked one up and noticed the motto under the title: