By John Stonestreet & G.S. Morris, The Stream - Recently, the president of a private, Christian college with quite a reputation for being too conservative explained to parents why their students would not be talking that much about contemporary politics. Young people, he said, simply don’t know enough to have opinions that are worth listening to. To know anything about politics, he continued, students need to know first what the soul is, what it means to be human, where truth comes from, and the best ideas of history about the role, purpose, and function of the polis. So, that’s what they would be studying instead.