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Anti-intellectualism in American Higher Ed

Sculb sumitted ago via http://www.truth-out.org (Views: 73, Clicks: 4)  View Story

Higher education has a responsibility not only to search for the truth regardless of where it may lead, but also to educate students to make authority and power politically and morally accountable. What needs to be understood is that higher education may be one of the few institutions we have left in the United States where knowledge, values and learning offer a glimpse of the promise of education for nurturing public values, critical hope and a sense of civic responsibility.

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