"A university is a community of scholars. It is not a kindergarten; it is not a club; it is not a reform school; it is…"

"Well, it seems to me it might be better if the colleges had race horses. The jockeys could wear the school colors and…"

"Many colleges of liberal arts and the researches of many scholars in the humanities and the social studies are import…"

"Now what I want to know is why I should have had to wait until age forty-three to get an education somewhat worse tha…"

"We know now that mechanical and technical progress is not identical with civilization. We must conclude, in fact, tha…"

"The degree now has little significance in terms of education. It is the recognition accorded a person who has passed …"

"We do not seem to get very far by talking about democracy. We know that Germany is not one. She says so. We know that…"

"It is doubtful, too, whether we can achieve free minds by concentrating our efforts on making our pupils economically…"

"The great problem of our time is moral, intellectual, and spiritual. With a superfluity of goods we are sinking into …"

"My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intel…"