Scholarship and Ideology

Authors

Bhikhu Parekh, University of Hull, England

Abstract

One of the most distinctive characteristics of the modern university is the tremendous emphasis placed on research, on "expanding the frontiers of knowledge." The faculty has argued, and the university authorities have in many cases accepted, that research is the only worth-while academic activity and that the university largely exists simply to promote it. In its name the faculty has sometimes even ignored, with official connivance, many of its academic obligations. Although, from the standpoint of the university, teaching is more important, research has become a new industry, a new god whose directives, it is believed, only the illiterate could violate.

Recommended Citation

Parekh, Bhikhu (1971) "Scholarship and Ideology," Perspectives (1969-1979): Vol. 3: No. 3, Article 2.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/perspectives/vol3/iss3/2