"Discipline, so far as it exists, is not of the humanistic or the religious type, but of the kind that one gets in tra…"

"The university, in a society ruled by public opinion, was to have been an island of intellectual freedom where all vi…"

"A liberal education means precisely helping students to pose this question [“What is man?”] to themselves, to become …"

"Most students will be content with what our present considers relevant; others will have a spirit of enthusiasm that …"

"The practical effects of unwillingness to think positively about the contents of a liberal education are, on the one …"

"True liberal education requires that the student’s whole life be radically changed by it, that what he learns may aff…"

"A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gain…"

"It was once said that democracy is the regime that stands or falls by virtue: a democracy is a regime in which all or…"

"A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral eff…"

"Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest f…"