These two things are the most valuable assets any individual can have. Unfortunately, they are not part of most school curricula.

Without critical thinking there is no way to evaluate ideas or propaganda. Critical thinking means that the individual uses all of his/her abilities to find out what is really going on.

Governments, royalty, churches, politicians, administrators, corporations, stock brokers, realtors, salespeople, and more, have all been found to not tell the truth. But, often, they use their power and image to project ideas for their own benefit.

If a person does not have the power of critical thinking it is easy, so easy, for that person to be manipulated. Joseph Goebbels, the master propagandist, was said to have told Hitler, that they (the Nazis) were lucky that the people were so stupid. If those people, the German everyday person, had had the power of critical thinking, the Nazis would never had gained the power they did. And the world would have been a different place during those awful years.

Imagination is crucial to life and progress. Sadly, this attribute is not encouraged in most academic environments, nor in business.

People have heard the naysayers say things like “pie in the sky”, “dreamer”, etc. and yet, who would have believed that a bunch of smart young people could have come up with Microsoft or You Tube or Fed Ex?

Imagination pays off in a better society.

Imagination has cured polio, discovered aspirin, xrays, the movies, calculators, and a million other things.

So, that would be my university. And I would be the first to apply for admission.