Two cheers for research

Authors

  • Terry Stokes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v6i1.4315

Keywords:

basic research, British Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), citation, Victoria University, Tertiary Education Strategy

Abstract

My title is an adaptation of a passage from an essay by E.M. Forster: Two cheers for democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. His general point is that ‘there lies at the bottom of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer’ (ibid., p.76), and, in particular, that democracy, as an ideal, is not something we should place upon a pedestal and worship uncritically. 

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Policy Quarterly volume 6 number 1 2010

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2010-02-01

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2010): Policy Quarterly

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