Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.