PUBLIC MARKS from McDonna with tag academic_freedom

These self-perpetuating closed ideological shops are -- to Canada's enormous moral and cultural cost --churning out highly politicized graduates incapable of autonomous thought, and ignorant of other perspectives. But all the king's horses and all the king's men won't fix the academy without a paradigm shift in the larger culture. Apart from a small contingency of embattled conservative and libertarian academics within the universities, along with the lonely gadfly Society for Academic Freedom in Scholarship ( www.safs.ca) and a modest phalanx of media contrarians, few Canadians (certainly not parents, donors and trustees) seem to understand that the civilizational self-doubt flowing from the degradation of a classic liberal education is the plaque in our national arteries.