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Saturday, January 27, 2024

The Future of Academic Freedom

…Over time, Harvard, like many other universities, has allowed the core academic mission of research, intellectual inquiry, and teaching to be subordinated to other values that, though important, should never have been allowed to work against it.

Sometime in the twenty-tens, it became common for students to speak of feeling unsafe when they heard things that offended them…

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-future-of-academic-freedom

2 comments:

  1. Nicholas Perrone - H02. This is interesting... It seems like schools regulating what is being taught to students protects students from learning all aspects of the world; when those topics arise in discussion, the students are uncomfortable. As a result, schools should allow all topics for discussion to allow students to feel secure when learning about unfamiliar topics.

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    1. Higher education is supposed to make us uncomfortable in the face of new knowledge. That's a condition of intellectual and personal growth.

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