Full Description
The good university is one that teaches students the intellectual skills they need to be intelligently critical - of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented by politicians and the media. Freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is restricted for fear of causing offence. In Defense of Free Speech surveys the underlying factors that circumscribe the ideas tolerated in our institutions of learning. James Flynn critically examines the way universities censor their teaching, how student activism tends to censor the opposing side and how academics censor themselves, and suggests that few, if any, universities can truly be seen as 'good'.In an age marred by fake news and social and political polarization, In Defense of Free Speech makes an impassioned argument for a return to critical thought.
Contents
1. Introduction Part 12. John Stuart Mill and the mission of the university 3. Middlebury and my mind Part 2: What others do to academics 4. Era of conservative oppression 5. The transition 6. Era of radical oppression 7. The struggle for control 8. Chicago and Yale and Harvard Part 3: What academics do to themselves 9. Black Studies 110. Women's Studies 11. The Walden Codes Part 4: What academics do to students 12. The teaching of teachers 13. The whole man: Critical skills 14. The whole man: Critical minds Part 5: Justification and advice 15. In praise of autonomy 16. The three frogs
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