Two kinds of responsibility should be stressed in connection with the teacher and academic freedom. One pertains to the teacher's obligation to conduct the teaching learning process in keeping with principles on which academic freedom rests. There is little point in establishing elaborate academic safeguards if the spirit of inquiry is not encouraged by the school staff. If controversial issues are ignored, if varying points of view are not tolerated, if the right to dissent is forbidden, if the teacher careful not to bring up controversial topics, and if he or she evade an opinion solicited by students, where does this leave us? In certain respects, it leaves us with students who have little understanding of scientific inquiry or with citizens who an unable to make intelligent decisions because their education was conducted in an atmosphere in which the spirit of free inquiry was not encouraged.