The thing about education - and why I'm so passionate about the position and status of the university - is that it's supposed to teach citizens how to think better, how to think critically, how to tell truth from falsehood,… — Joan Wallach Scott Copy Share Image
The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and… — 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
