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Friday, March 25, 2005
Academic freedom is no more sacred than is freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious freedom, freedom to produce what one pleases, and freedom to trade with whomever one pleases. There is no freedom peculiar to the classroom, diplomas, degrees, or mortarboards. Let anyone teach what he pleases, but let him do it on his own responsibility. Let him not cry “academic freedom” as he robs someone else of freedom.
When government is in the educational driver’s seat, academic freedom will always be argued as if a political and ideological problem, which really it is not. When the market is free for the production and exchange of all goods and all services the issue of freedom — academic, economic, or whatever — is never in question.
— Leonard E. Read, from “Academic Freedom” in Essays on Liberty, Volume X [1963]
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