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Faculty Freedom and Politics
This article attempts to present the proposition that academic freedom is the sole guarantee against politicization of government colleges and universities. The exercise of such freedom belongs to the faculty.
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Faculty Freedom and Politics This article attempts to present the proposition that academic freedom is the sole guarantee against politicization of government colleges and universities. The exercise of such freedom belongs to the faculty. The advancement of education to meet the demands of the future depends greatly on the freedom of the teacher to make optimum use of his intellectual power within the widest possible latitude. The development of academic freedom may ...
... cannot be overemphasized. It gives substance to institutionalized autonomy by which the state college or university can function as a free market place of ideas and “ the repository of knowledge” (Zwaeneoel, 1975). By its power to discern truth from falsity, it plays the role of a critic motivated only by the desire to improve human life.
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