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The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position read more
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much read more
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice read more
Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed read more
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for read more
’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .'
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
