PURPOSE OF THE
UNIVERSITY
“Within the unique
university context, the most crucial of all human rights are the rights
of
freedom of speech, academic freedom and freedom of research. And we affirm that these rights are
meaningless unless they entail the right to raise deeply disturbing
questions
and provocative challenges to the cherished beliefs of society at large
and of
the university itself. It is this human
right to radical, critical teaching and research with which the
University has
a duty above all to be concerned; for there is no one else, no other
institution and no other office, in our modern liberal democracy, which
is the
custodian of this most precious and vulnerable right of the liberated
human
spirit.”
University of Toronto, Statement of Institutional Purpose.
