The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.