Academic freedom has never been meant to be an unbridled license. It is a privilege that assumes a correlative duty to exercise it responsibly. An equally telling precept is a long recognized mandate, so well expressed in Article 19 of the Civil Code, that every "person must, in the exercise of his rights and in the performance of his duties, act with justice, give everyone his due, and observe honesty and good faith. The punishment of expulsion is disproportionate to his having had some deficiencies in his CMT course. The circumstances lend truth to the petitioner's claim that the private respondent has strongly been influenced by his active participation in questioning PHCR's application for tuition fee increase. (Isabelo vs. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 103142, November 8, 1993)
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