“The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
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.