No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.
Leon BotsteinSchooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generationโs level of knowledge and sense of values.
Leon BotsteinIf Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
Leon BotsteinAt best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
Leon Botstein