The state of academia today - "academic freedom" is hazardous to proper opinion.

Posted by $ amiga 10 years ago to Education
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Harvard senior: We cannot allow "academic freedom" if it includes improper thoughts ...

"It is tempting to decry frustrating restrictions on academic research as violations of academic freedom. Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. After all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just."
SOURCE URL: http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single


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  • Posted by khalling 10 years ago
    My favorite line was those on the right can promote their solution of economic freedom to choose but social justice has the moral upper hand. ( paraphrase)
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