NOT too long ago, one of the officials of the University of the Philippines delivered a speech in which he explained why it seemed that UP had become the seedbed of rebels. Without conceding that indeed it was, he argued, quite persuasively, that because the students of the national state university were neither constrained by partisan nor sectarian allegiances, they were free to be independent-minded and to be critical.

And these included standing up to the posturing of autocrats, who want all their statements and pronouncements to be accepted in the spirit that the faithful submit themselves to dogma. To that, however, must be added the caveat that neither should UP’s professors and students be votaries of any particular ideology without introducing the critical moment.

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