Such works as Milton’s “Areopagitica” and Mill’s “Liberty” are not used as text-books in the American colleges. Surely that is asking far too much. Who could imagine a pedagogue honestly believing in liberty? If he did his life would be one long stultification, for he lives in a world in which he has no rights […]
College Quotes
Seniors graduate from high school over the next few weeks. Many will expand their education with advanced learning and mentoring with very bright people. Others will go to college.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
A knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without the Bible.
I was convinced in the early sixties that what was wanted was a liberal education to give such students the wherewithal to examine their lives and survey their potential. This was the one thing the universities were unequipped and unwilling to offer them. The students’ wandering and wayward energies finally found a political outlet. By […]
College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, but I doubt there were ever changes of such magnitude as those faced by the students who came to their campuses in the late sixties. Most of us don’t say much about those years now, not because we don’t remember […]
