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The facade of an ivy-covered building with a blue door.

Rabbi Steinlauf’s disturbing attack on academic freedom

The mission of a university education is to expose students to ideas they haven’t encountered, and to engage in evidence-based critical conversation. It is not intellectual comfort and safety that is the mark of a quality education, but rather the hard and often uncomfortable work of learning how to think critically and reason carefully. 

The mission of a university education is to expose students to ideas they haven’t encountered, and to engage in evidence-based critical conversation. It is not intellectual comfort and safety that is the mark of a quality education, but rather the hard and often uncomfortable work of learning how to think critically and reason carefully. 


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