University’s first female vice-chancellor says exposure to ‘objectionable’ views helps students develop counter-arguments
Extremist groups should not be banned from speaking at British universities because students need to think approximately challenging “objectionable” ideas, Oxford University’s first female vice-chancellor has said.
Prof Louise Richardson told the Daily Telegraph: “We need to expose our students to ideas that make them uncomfortable so that they can think approximately why it is that they feel uncomfortable and what it is approximately those ideas that they thing to.
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Source: theguardian.com