Dr. Everett Piper, President of the Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, is quite the engaging speaker.  At a recent Common Core event in Edmond, Oklahoma, Piper lamented that the Common Core State Standards were “common” and that a true liberal arts education has no place for “common”.   Academic freedom (and religious freedom) go hand in hand in a society where liberty is cherished.   Piper states, “Ideas have consequences” and that  “Ideas matter.”

Dr. Piper is the author of “Why I’m a Liberal and Other Conservative Ideas”.