Posted on 01/11/2017 2:48:42 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Sixty years ago, Chief Justice Earl Warren warned our nation that we had a choice. Either teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study and to evaluate, or our civilization will stagnate and die. There was no third option.
Today, we face this choice again. Recent attempts to shame professors for unpopular views and to curtail the due process rights of those accused of misconduct are cause for alarm. Especially when academic freedom is endangered at places such as Yale long celebrated as a leader on freedom of expression we know that the erosion of academic freedom has become a national problem.
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The only way to save the universities is to put a bunch of PHDs in the soup lines and replace them with non-idiots/non-commies
The public square itself is for open debate and inquiry. Most of the universities collapsed in on themselves a while ago, victims of their own ambitions; stick a fork in ‘em, etc.
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