Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

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

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

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

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.