Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
There's actually a wonderful quote from Stanley Fish, who is sometimes very polemical and with whom I don't always agree. He writes, "Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The growing gap between rich and poor, the seeming lack of concern for the health and well-being of ordinary people, the obscene salaries made… — Joan Wallach Scott 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 what happens… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented.… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
I think the anger that is being directed to universities and so-called elites at universities is actually an anger that's displaced from politicians (who… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's more about… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
What I mean by the common good is that we understand we're all part of something bigger than ourselves, that we live in societies… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost. — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The Trump election brought it the fore and made it possible for a number of different groups whose aim is to stop the teaching… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
