Katrina M.

Peraz
11- STEM HAWKING
PHILOSOPHY

The Intellectual Freedom is the right of every individual’s access,

explore, consider, and express ideas and information as the basis for
a self-governing, well-informed citizenry and also to both seek and
receive information from all points of view without restriction. It
provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any
and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored and
encompasses the freedom to hold, receive and disseminate ideas.
Intellectual freedom comprises the bedrock for freedoms of
expression, speech, and the press and relates to freedoms of
information and privacy. Intellectual freedom places fundamental
value on the autonomy of the individual to hold and express beliefs
without fear of political or social punishment. This requires valuing mind
and inquiry. The possession of knowledge, especially foreknowledge,
is valued as divine or a sign of contact with the divine by many human
cultures.