My apologies. I was quite certain that you were using the word, “educating” literally and naturally thought that the inclusion of Wesleyan in your original post was a direct reference to an actual university sponsored program which, indeed, targets and to some degree attempts to channel youthful passion into the more practical aspects of community development.
As to your reply to my reply. I’m sorry, if that’s been your general impression of student activists. My experience differs. My experience is that very few of them escape college without a firm grounding in how capitalism works and the history of Western Civilization; there are all sorts of redundancies built into the curriculum of a typical New England college that virtually guarantee they will have come across Adam Simith as well as Karl Marx. Their opinions just differ from mine, and I suspect yours and that’s what makes this a free country.