Institutions that decline to protect threatened scholars become ends in themselves

Evidence

But if the directors of the Institute were not prepared to protect someone in a case like that, was the protective institution therefore not merely an end in itself? Horkheimer’s additional argument, that Mitscherlich had given a lecture at the Institute some time previously which `was a very diligent analytical explication of our Fifth Thesis on Anti-Semitism’, but that he had not actually heard Mitscherlich produce anything original, seemed to be merely a rationalization after this. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 486

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact paradigmatic indictment of an institute founded to shelter Jewish scholars refusing to shelter one.
• XREF: connects to: Institutions exhaust committed teachers by withholding structural support — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 319; Institutions begin as means to satisfy needs, then become ends in themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 623; Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 314
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Institutions exhaust committed teachers by withholding structural support — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 319; Institutions begin as means to satisfy needs, then become ends in themselves. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 623; Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 314

Broader Connections

• Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success #complicates (0.71) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 314