Understanding the rampant surge in academic bullying

It is said that the road to liberation lies in the ability to think and speak without the fear of risks. In academia free thinking is power, Yet there is ignorance of inquiry.
How many times has it happened that you have spoken without being made fun of, being teased or made to feel guilty about knowing things and doing things?  How many times has the gossip made you feel humiliated, dejected and worthless? How many times did you feel that your right to express and to be yourself has been violated?

Academia at different stages has witnessed the rejection of the Rabble hypothesis, which assumes mankind is a horde of unorganized individuals driven by self-interests. Instead, it is the informal shadowed organisation that has succumbed to an oppressive behavioural pattern,  calling for conformism, a breach of which invites bullying, ragging and browbeating. This jeopardises both individualities while hampering education in bringing a revolution, by refusing critical thinking.

Only when an individual is not afraid to confront, enter, see, to hear, the reality of the world unfolds.