Academic Freedom famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There are, however, many challenges to Asian universities. First, academic freedom, in all senses, is much more critical to the success of a university than how much money is spent on infrastructure or on hiring big names. Faculty need to have the space to pursue the research that they are passionate about and the also need to have the freedom to express their opinions in the university, and in the society as a whole.
-- Henry Rosovsky

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To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
-- James E. Rogers, Jr.

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Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
-- Jerry A. Coyne

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There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America.
If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?