By Prof. Jose Butch Dalisay Jr.
Rebellion and resistance are coded into UP’s DNA, because we have always encouraged critical thinking, which in turn encourages—at least for a while, until complacency sets in—an attitude of dissidence, of anti-authoritarianism, of rejection of the status quo. That’s how knowledge happens, that’s how it begins, as every scientist since Galileo has affirmed.
… The true heart of UP lies neither in the Right nor the Left, but in that great liberal middle—“liberal” with a small “L”—whose members value the freedom to think, to speak, to study, and to teach, subscribing neither to State propaganda nor to Party doctrine, but trusting their own reason and education to illumine the way forward.
… I pray that we will continue to breed students who will not only be outstanding performers and citizens but also Filipinos of conscience who will march again for good and right when the country calls. Learning to lead requires critical thinking; learning to follow demands nothing more than blind conformity.
Read the full text of the speech delivered by Dr. Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., Professor at the College of Arts and Letters and Vice President for Public Affairs, on the freedom to think, to speak, to study, and to teach:
https://www.up.edu.ph/index.php/the-freedom-of-intelligence/
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