giovedì 1 settembre 2005

Academic free speech - 2

"From 1934 to 2003, UC regulations defined academic freedom this way: "The function of the university is to seek and transmit knowledge and to train students in the processes whereby truth is to be made known. To convert, or make converts, is alien and hostile to this dispassionate duty. Where it becomes necessary, in performing this function of a university, to consider political, social or sectarian movements, they are dissected and examined, not taught, and the conclusion left, with no tipping of the scales, to the logic of the facts."

Il dibattito sulle regole presso l'Università di California:


One side fits all - On-campus ideologues smother academic freedom by choking off critical thinking, Leila Beckwith, The Los Angeles Times, 28 agosto.

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