"Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home is redefined as a problem."
Social Values quotes
Social Values
39 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
39 quotes
Ellen Willis
Writer, Activist
Edward de Bono
Psychologist
"Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there."
Samuel
Philosopher
"Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy."
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