“Education should not be intended to make people
comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should be expected to
provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong
disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn
assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom." —
Hanna Holborn Gray, former president of the University of Chicago, quoted in Geoffrey
R. Stone, “Free Speech on Campus: A Report from the University Faculty Committee,” Huffington Post, Jan. 6, 2015
(The photo of
Ms. Gray accompanying this post, taken in 1989, comes from the University of
Chicago.)
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