Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time),… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
We have witnessed the bravery of students, academics and leaders alike, who have stood up courageously for free speech and academic freedom… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
“Lynum had plenty of information to share. The FBI's files on Mario Savio, the brilliant philosophy student who was the spokesman for… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the… — Donald Kennedy Copy Share Image
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by… — Masao Maruyama Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
