Academic Freedom Quotes

12 quotes by 10 authors

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint… — Richard M. Nixon
The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every… — William O. Douglas
MIT is governed by a second, even higher rule: the inalienable right of academic freedom. — Nicholas Negroponte
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues facing… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom… — Donald Kennedy
Churchmen are quick to defend religious freedom; lawyers were never so universally aroused as by President Roosevelt's Court bill; newspapers are most alert to civil… — Earl Warren
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom. — Alan Dershowitz
The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the… — Judith Butler
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… — James E. Rogers

Who Wrote These Academic Freedom Quotes

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