Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.