The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.