Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Benno Schmidt: Mitch Daniels's Gift to Academic Freedom - WSJ.com

Benno Schmidt: Mitch Daniels's Gift to Academic Freedom - WSJ.com: "The American Association of University Professors itself recognized those obligations in its seminal statement, the 1915 Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom, which is today nearly forgotten: "If this profession should prove itself unwilling to purge its ranks of the incompetent and unworthy, or to prevent the freedom which it claims . . . from being used as a shelter for inefficiency, for superficiality, or for uncritical and intemperate partisanship, it is certain that the task will be performed by others.""

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