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Quote from Richard Hofstadter,


"A university’s essential character is that
of being a center of free inquiry and criticism --
a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."


By:

Richard Hofstadter (more quotes by Richard Hofstadter or books by/about Richard Hofstadter)


(1916-1970) American historian, professor

Source:

Commencement Address, Columbia University, 1968.

Categories:

Dissent, Diversity, Education, Knowledge, Reason, Skepticism, Truth, Character

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