The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and under-nourishment.
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
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The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
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The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
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It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.
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The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
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We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
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