Abstract:
We present in the paper an ethical appraisal of
higher education focusing majorly on relevance and
requirements of practicing democratic principles in higher
education. We assess in this endeavor two ethical issues, namely
teacher-student friendship, and autonomy of students in the
classroom and argue for ethical infeasibility of teacher-student
friendship and need for protection of autonomy of students. In
connection with the latter, we argue for ethical restrictions on a
teacher’s advocacy of views because advocacy of views may
unjustifiably lead to maintaining one’s own position to elicit
students’ agreement in a topic of academic study in humanities
and social sciences.