eh I think there was ever a time of independent thinking in college. Of course they did breed some free thinkers but lets face it the majority of the population are not free thinkers. I don't even think I'm a free thinker. The whole reason the education system came about in the first place anyway was so that people could think alike. It's so stupid how my art teachers proclaim that the only good way to think is to freely think yet there isn't a day that goes by where they don't sit here and tell me what good art and what is bad art. These day's good art is all about abstractions. The more abstract and less meaning within a painting the better it is. I call shenanigans!