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The ruling serves as a testament to the inherent tension between freedom and coercion in the pursuit of knowledge. Learning cannot be secured through surveillance. Compulsory attendance belongs to a paternalistic era that believed that students must be prodded into intellectual life rather than invited into it. A university worthy of its name should cultivate curiosity, not compliance. Attendance is not a measure of learning; at best it is a measure of obedience. A classroom that enforces attendance is already pedagogically bankrupt. Coercion produces neither seriousness nor scholarship. Coercion, indeed, is always the refuge of a pedagogy that has lost confidence. True learning cannot be mandated. It can only be cultivated.

- Shelley Walia, The Hindu, (2/1)

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