Academic Freedom in the World’s Largest Democracy

Academic Freedom.

I started school in a one-room school house with nine grades but just six students. I was the entire kindergarten (called ‘primary’ in Iowa). The teacher would call us one by one to sit in the chair next to her desk. In my case, it was always a pleasant interlude. There was never a sense in my mind that she wanted me to do something. She would often mention something interesting and let it go a...

Freedom to Choose and Democracy

Should democracts value the freedom to choose? Do people value facing distinct choices when they make collective decisions? ‘Autonomy’ – the ability to participate in the making of collective decisions – is a paltry notion of freedom. True, democrats must be prepared that their preferences may not be realized as the outcome of the collective choice. Yet democracy is impoverished when many peopl...

Positive Philosophy, Freedom and Democracy

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

The Internet and academic freedom.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 337 6 JULY 2012 5 COVER Structure of the Wnt signaling molecule (red) in complex with the Frizzled ligand-binding domain (yellow), schematically depicted as connected to the cell surface. A key feature of this structure is the visualization of a lipid group (blue) on Wnt directly engaging Frizzled. The Wnt/Frizzled mode of binding paves the way for the design of W...