Definition of Academic freedom

1. Noun. The freedom of teachers and students to express their ideas in school without religious or political or institutional restrictions.

Generic synonyms: Freedom

Definition of Academic freedom

1. Noun. The right to teach or learn freely without unreasonable interference from authority. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Academic Freedom

academese
academia
academial
academian
academians
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academic
academic administrator
academic art
academic bulimia
academic costume
academic degree
academic department
academic discipline
academic dissertations
academic freedom (current term)
academic gown
academic institution
academic medical centres
academic program
academic relation
academic requirement
academic robe
academic session
academic term
academic year
academic years
academical
academically
academically disadvantaged

Literary usage of Academic freedom

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1907)
"This is for the student the first element in a just academic freedom. ... This choice among teachers is a very valuable element in academic freedom for the ..."

2. Free speech bibliography: including every discovered attitude toward the by Theodore Albert Schroeder (1922)
"Teachers, Freedom of academic freedom denied; the committee of economists reports on the Ross case; the professor at Leland Stanford university forced out ..."

3. Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Economic Association (1915)
"PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON academic freedom AND ACADEMIC TENURE At ... The public relations of academic freedom, apart from the teachers ..."

4. Current Issues in Chinese Higher Education by Oecd, OECD Staff, Imhe, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, Qing hua da xue (Beijing, China) (2000)
"The limitations of academic freedom The notion of academic freedom can be ... This study finds that the Western concept of academic freedom has limited ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1887)
"ARTICLE L—academic freedom IN GERMANY. IN his address at the Harvard celebration last November, ... The home of academic freedom has always been Germany. ..."

6. A Text-book in the Principles of Education by Ernest Norton Henderson (1910)
"The rise of academic freedom The question of the differentiation of the school is so closely Three phases bound up with that of its independence that the ..."

7. Self-surveys by Colleges and Universities by William Harvey Allen (1917)
"academic freedom There is no little concern felt throughout the country for the integrity of academic freedom. A number of alleged persecutions for ..."

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