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[quote=Anonymous]The purpose of college is not job preparation, it is intellectual preparation for the entire life course. This means being exposed to controversial ideas, participating in the creation of new knowledge, and understanding how to critically assess propositions put before you. It also means resisting bad ideas even when they are advanced by people who pay you (which is why thinking of college as job preparation is such a disastrous mistake). Academic freedom protects all of this. Tenured faculty have it. Nobody else teaching at the college level—TAs, adjuncts, nontenure-track faculty—does, no matter how good they may be at delivering lectures or any of the other constituent tasks of the job—and many are stupendously good.[/quote]
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