"Universities are now battlegrounds" (Cornelia Woll, Hertie School at Civica Global Forum 2025)

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"I’m not so worried about uncertainty—we’ve always had that. What I’m worried about today is that universities are literally under attack; universities are now battlegrounds. A lot of people want to control what knowledge is produced and how education is delivered. We have to teach people how to think, not what to think”, says Cornelia Woll...

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