- Title
- On academic freedom
- Creator
- Pityana, Barney
- Subject
- Academic Freedom -- South Africa Universities and colleges -- South Africa Equality Liberty Education and state -- South Africa Education, Higher -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/751
- Identifier
- vital:19987
- Description
- Traditionally, higher education has formed the vanguard of ideological persuasion and even indoctrination, in support of political and social change. We should not be surprised then, that the converse also applies. Where an existing order is threatened, those intellectuals who do not toe the line are often vilified, marginalised and even worse. Many of the great revolutions have commenced with a thorough purging of intellectuals. History will testify to that. Furthermore, where the State funds higher education institutions, then notions of academic freedom will always be tempered by the expectation of some sort of reciprocal loyalty.
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Daantjie Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
- Relation
- S.C.S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lectures
- Rights
- Pityana, Barney
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