No man can be a successful teacher... unless he enjoys the respect of his students, and their confidence in his intellectual integrity. It is clear, however, that this confidence will be impaired if there is suspicion on the part of the student that the teacher is not expressing himself fully or frankly, or that college and university teachers in general are a repressed and intimidated class who dare not speak with that candor and courage which youth always demands in those whom it is to esteem. [I]f the student has reason to believe that the instructor is not true to himself, the virtue of the instruction as an educative force is incalculably diminished.

—“Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure,”
AAUP, 1915. (Appendix C)

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