The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories