Collective responsibility Quote by Joan Wallach Scott

“The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.” quote by Joan Wallach Scott — Download Open image

“The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.”

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Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue…

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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…

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Free speech is what we all have and is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Academic freedom refers to what happens in the university, particularly in the classroom, and to the importance of the teacher having the right to teach and share what he or she has learned, has proven her competence to teach, having gone through…

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There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented. There are students whose ideas about history or sexuality are going to be similarly challenged to question, to affirm or to change those ideas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be exposed to them; that's why they're…

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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 them as less than other citizens, less than whites in the society. And I think that pointing out that there are structures of discrimination in the society, deeply rooted racist structures, that segregate housing, that send…

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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…

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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…

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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 shrewdness than about intellect. His attack on "elites" is meant to rally his base to rebel against the powers that be - in Washington especially. I don't think he cares much about higher education per se;…

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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, how to make a judgment about when they're being lied to and duped and when they're not, how to evaluate…

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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…

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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…

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All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted…

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