Academic Freedom 101: Can Students Think for Themselves?
Rumble linkIs a university professor’s job to make students regurgitate his own views? Or is it, rather, to call attention to the most noteworthy extant interpretations, and encourage students to use critical thinking to come to their own conclusions?My academic training favored the latter approach, perhaps because I was fortunate enough not to study under any egotistical academic superstars. (My dissertation advisor, the late Harold Scheub, was only a semi-superstar in the somewhat marginal field of African Languages and Literature.) But plenty of people, inside and especially outside the…
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