In classrooms all over America you hear teachers asking their students for their opinion and what they think. When asked that most students groan or get mad that they have to answer a question, but it is actually something that those students should think about and be grateful for. It used to be where students were told what to think and they were only taught one side of things but now in schools in the United States students are taught multiple sides of things leaving it up to them which side they want to choose. In The United States we have the right to think, something that we utilize every day without knowing. I am an example of one of those students who has never thought of the idea of the right to think. It never occurred to me how powerful of a right it is to be able to think. We exercise that right every day by making our own decisions and deciding what to believe and what not to believe. Before I read Inherit the Wind, I never really thought about the right to think, but now that I have read this play, I realize how great of a right it is. Some countries still don’t have that right because the governments in those countries want to have complete power over their people. Like Taylor said, we find it as a shock that we didn’t have that right in our own country in the 1920s. A lot of people get the idea that our country is perfect, but even in the 1920s we still didn’t have our own right to think. Thanks to the John Scopes trial, we now have that complete right to think and I am very happy that we have that right. It gives me a greater feeling of freedom knowing that I can think and believe anything that I want even if it goes against what I am taught in school. Now that I have read Inherit the Wind, and thought about the right to think, I am more aware of the right and more grateful that in this country we have the privilege of having that right.