Denis Rancourt on Academic Freedom

Denis Rancourt, former tenured professor of physics at the University of Ottawa, speaks at the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center's 2nd Annual Conference at New York University on April 3, 2009, three days after his firing from uOttawa on the false pretext of assigning high grades. [Part 1/3]

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"One knows … that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class. … It seems to me that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticise the workings of institutions, which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticise and attack them in such a manner that the political violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them." -- Foucault, debating Chomsky, 1971.