Jonathan Rauch on Why Offense Is Essential to Learning

Nov 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm

http://www.dynamist.com/2437/jonathan-rauch-on-why

"Whenever anyone tells you, 'I've got it right. I've got the one true answer and everyone else is wrong and I'm going to enforce it," that person is not only a menace to freedom but, more important, a menace to human thriving and human knowledge. It would be a shame if universities, of all places in this country, forgot that lesson."

Buy Jonathan's book Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Jonathan's website, including archives of his articles, is here.