PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made “intellectual exploration impossible.”
In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote:
“I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion.
Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
“Brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible.
It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.”
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>PORTLAND, OR – Peter Boghossian, an associate professor who has taught philosophy at Portland State University for the past decade, resigned Wednesday, saying the university has made “intellectual exploration impossible.”
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In his resignation letter submitted to Provost Susan Jeffords, Boghossian wrote:
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“I never once believed — nor do I now — that the purpose of instruction was to lead my students to a particular conclusion.
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Rather, I sought to create the conditions for rigorous thought; to help them gain the tools to hunt and furrow for their own conclusions. This is why I became a teacher and why I love teaching.
>
“Brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible.
>
It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a social justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.”
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