I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.