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Title: In its 100 commemorative special issue, Hong Kong's Ming Pao interviewed famous overseas artists and answered this question in the special issue of "Questions and Answers on China's Past, Present and Future". This is the first part of this special issue, Yu Yingshi's Q&A on academic, educational and teaching issues.
Q: Academic freedom is one of the ideals pursued by human society. No matter in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, all practices of suppressing freedom are denied by most people. Therefore, the era when China abandoned the market with occasional words, the era of theological monopoly in medieval Europe and the era of Nazi intolerance were all regarded by historians as a century of tyranny or darkness. Why is academic freedom (including the freedom to publish works) so important? Is academic freedom necessary?
Why is academic freedom so important? Why do we have to have academic freedom? This is a big question that cannot be answered by one or two reasons. Let's just say that we talk about academic freedom and never talk about absolute academic freedom, which is actually impossible. Of course, we hope to be completely free one day, but in the real world, there will never be complete freedom. Economists have the so-called "perfect competition" (imperfect competition), that is to say, the so-called completely free competition capitalist economy does not actually exist. ...
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