Honorary Doctoral Degree Awarded at November 2019 Commencement to Patrik Schumacher

Sophy Ramírez  | 20 de noviembre de 2019  | Vistas: 724

Graduation Honorary Doctoral Degree Liberty UFM

Universidad Francisco Marroquín granted Patrik Schumacher an honorary doctoral degree in social sciences, the maximum distinction of this house of studies and named them honorary professors for his work on the development of urbanism and liberty.

After the recognition is given, Patrik Schumacher gives a speech in which he expresses his joyfulness of being now part of Universidad Francisco Marroquín, a university that involves libertarian ideas in all faculties. 

It is important to express how we should value academic excellence scholarship, learning knowledge, which is the force that drives progress in the world.”

Schumacher remembers Manuel Ayau, the founder of the university, and shows his admiration for his work and legacy implementing the philosophy of his heroes, Freiderich von Hayek and Milton Friedman. 

This intellectual project is very important as we see around the world the message of liberty need to be reinforced, we have a number of political events around the world which demands all of us to participate and to be intellectually fortified to do this.”

Finally, he encourages the students to undertake and show their solutions for social problems to the world. 

Get inspired with his speech during the November 2019 Ceremony for Honor Graduates, where he congratulates the students for their achievements.

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Honorary doctorate in social sciences