Inconvenient Facts

In Wissenschaft als Beruf, Max Weber set out the first task of a university teacher. Wenn jemand ein brauchbarer Lehrer ist, dann ist es seine erste Aufgabe, seine Schüler unbequeme Tatsachen anerkennen zu lehren, solche, meine ich, die für seine Parteimeinung unbequem sind; und es gibt für jede Parteimeinung – z.B. auch für die meinige – solche äußerst unbequeme Tatsachen. If someone is a useful teacher, his first task is to teach his students to accept inconvenient facts, I mean facts that are inconvenient for his party opinion. And for every party opinion, including my own, there are such extremely inconvenient facts. The prophet and the demagogue, Weber said, do not belong at the lectern.

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