The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.
If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.
He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.