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Originally posted by: USMbacker
" When, because of their faulty paradigms, college presidents and the boards with which they serve do not permit opposing viewpoints to be heard, they demonstrate that they do not yet know the difference between education and indoctrination. They wish to tell students what to think rather than teaching them how to think. Such presidents and boards seem not to understand that if you know how to think, you will know what to think. Not to permit academic freedom for professors or for students simply because it complicates fund raising or because it threatens institutionally favored ideas is to banish fact-finding and the acquisition of new and greater wisdom from the college, from the very institution that ought to be the best friend of such high and important endeavors. Presidents who do such things seem not to realize that they value mental cloning over authentic teaching. In an atmosphere of mental cloning, if a college’s worldview or its self-understanding are distorted, neither that college nor the students it claims to teach could ever be undeceived because those who deeply and passionately share its error permit no airing of alternatives. Colleges and their presidents all need the help that only potential intellectual dissent can provide. But that help, in most cases, is banished, even censored, by the very persons and institutions that need it most. That failure has been repeated on more college and university campuses than I can count.""

 

My comment about the picture below is that in the case of Professors with research programs, it is their job to pursue  dreams on the company dime. And to include their students.

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