To be here, I had to resign from the best job in the world, teaching fantastic students at a great school that embraces diversity and free thinking—the school that I left as a sixth former way back in 1979. I had a poster in my classroom that said, "Just because you're offended doesn't mean you're right.", and this is becoming more relevant every day. The increasing inability of young people to listen to a different opinion, debate ideas, challenge beliefs with fact, preferring to condemn all opposition, is concerning. Unfortunately, this is too often encouraged and demonstrated by adults, including teachers, hung up in their own world of woke conformity and self-righteousness, and those who are actively trying to strip away our rights to speak freely.