Interesting article about how students at Tel Aviv University are afraid to challenge their leftist professors in haaretz today. I know less than half a dozen leftist professors. I know half a dozen rightist professors. Most of the professors I know don’t have much of an opinion one way or another about anything outside their scholarship. That’s the problem.
Or maybe I don’t know enough professors.
But I can’t get over the feeling that we have been trained not to intervene in public affairs, not to apply our knowledge to ‘real life,’ and therefore to be both ‘pure’ and irrelevant.
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