ABSTRACT
The fact that the objection is raised at all is one of the many indications that the scholar’s function in society and indeed the intrinsic meaning and worth of education and of scholarly research are most inadequately understood by the people of this country. No one, on the other hand, would deny that the clergyman, the lawyer, the doctor, the civil servant, even the statesman, possess certain rights and incur certain obligations by virtue of their distinctive roles. In the light of the considerations let us endeavor to review the rights and obligations of the scholar, what respectively he must demand from his society and what in turn he must demand from himself, if he is to be loyal to the high functions he fulfills for his institutions, for his society, and for mankind. The dismissal of a professor for his defense of educational standards against administrative policies represents a particularly flagrant violation of the scholar’s rights.
