Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“My previous post argued that, for the modern corporate university, there is an essential contradiction between the desirability of neutrality on controversial issues and the need to take positions on such issues in the course of its ordinary functioning. In that post I took it for granted that education and academic research would be done in the context of a corporate structure, something like Harvard or the University of Chicago. That is not how it was always done in the past. The early European universities, of which Bologna was the first, were places where students, individually or as organized bodies, bought teaching from professors, not corporations hiring professors and selling schooling to students.” (01/18/25)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/an-alternative-university