[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

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

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.