Escape, you guileless, any education in the fastest barque.

Epikur 341 - 271/0 BC

My lecturer lectures

Since the Thun-Hohenstein University Reform of 1849, Austrian university teaching has been characterized by freedom of teaching, a special case of freedom of expression. University faculty members with habilitations can therefore freely design courses in terms of content and methodology and are entitled to express their scientific and artistic opinions without political constraints. In reality, however, this freedom is severely restricted, on the one hand by study regulations and, on the other, by the paralyzing behavioral patterns of competing colleagues and organizational superiors. Modern developments, however, show that politicians are currently investigating whether it would be possible to cut off third-party funding for university employees who express themselves publicly in ways they dislike. This leads to censorship in the form of self-censorship and effectively restricts academic freedom - a development that is fully in line with the trend toward autocratic and authoritarian political systems. Traces of academic freedom can only be found in so-called lecturer lectures, which, however, are almost never compulsory for students. These, my lecturer lectures, and their materials are presented below.