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2007 December 07
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"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly,
science into superstition,
and art into pedantry.
Hence University education." |
"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain." |
"Say not, when I have leisure I will study;
you may not have leisure." |
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2007 December 06
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"Only the educated are free." |
"Upon the education of the people of this country, the fate of this country depends." |
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2007 December 05
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure." |
"The intellectually stifling results of censorship -- while deplorable in any setting -- would be all the more abominable if allowed to exist within the college environment." |
"Academic freedom means the right, long accepted in the academic world,
to study, discuss, and write about facts and ideas without restrictions,
other than those imposed by conscience and morality." |
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2007 December 04
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"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another." |
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car,
but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad." |
"I believe [that William Graham Sumner] was one of the greatest professors we ever had at Yale, but I have drawn far away from his point of view, that of the old laissez faire doctrine. I remember he said in his classroom: 'Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the Socialists want government to be everything. There can be no greater contrast. Well, the time will come when there will be only these two great parties, the Anarchists representing the laissez faire doctrine and the Socialists representing the extreme view on the other side, and when that time comes I am an Anarchist.' That amused his class very much, for he was as far from a revolutionary as you could expect. But I would like to say that if that time comes when there are two great parties, Anarchists and Socialists, then I am a Socialist." |
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2007 December 03
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"We shall have our follies without doubt. Some one or more of them will
always be afloat. But ours will be the follies of enthusiasm,
not of bigotry, not of Jesuitism. Bigotry is the disease of ignorance,
of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free
discussion are the antidotes of both." |
"Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal
education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science.
If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed...
The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth
and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible
the search for a new enlightenment." |
"The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people." |
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