Academic Irresponsibility
December, 1968
To Argue in favor of freedom for the teacher seems at first the most pointless sort of preaching to the converted, since everybody--as everybody hastens to assure you--is already convinced. Difficult enough under the best of conditions, everybody explains, teaching would be virtually impossible without a large degree of liberty. But everybody then adds, at the point where piety ends and candor begins, that the teacher obviously must be "responsible" as well as free; the clear implicati...
