Life hacking is currently a popular concept. This is what the smart people are doing, we are told by people selling both the ideas, and the idea of being smart.
It occurs to me that liberty is a necessary precondition for continual innovation and counter-paradigmatic thinking.
At a conceptual level, ideational freedom combined with relative freedom of action and complete freedom of expression, is a meta-hack: it is how you get smarter about getting smarter.
And necessarily, the LACK of ideational and speech freedoms on college campuses can ONLY work to make people stupider. In my view, no other outcome is possible.
If I might state the obvious, if you want innovation, you need to allow it.