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Wendy Kaminer on academic freedom.

Wendy Kaminer: "Why is academic freedom important? Because in order to think, in order to exercise your freedom, you need to be educated – and in order for people to be educated they need to have the freedom to consider a very wide range of ideas, to have their own preconceptions questioned, and questioned vigorously."

This article makes a good case for the importance of academic freedom, and discusses some of the ways in which university administrators (and students) are increasingly nervous about people being too outspoken on campus -- whether the outspoken ones are on the left or the right. The article emphasizes the excesses of students aiming to quash right-wing opinions somewhat more than the reverse, however.

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Source: Spiked | The left has been infected by the disease of intolerance

posted by Dylan T @ 9:37 AM