Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.
The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.
The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.
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