No One Man Is Superior

Some Of My Academic Friends Think Ive Fallen From A Very Special Grace.

As I Grew Up, I Knew That As A Building It Was On The Level Of Mount Olympus, The Pyramid Of Giza, The Nation's Capital, The Czar's Winter Palace, And The Louvre - Except, Of Course, That It Was Better Than All Of Those Inconsequential Places.

A Liberal Education Is At The Heart Of A Civil Society, And At The Heart Of A Liberal Education Is The Act Of Teaching.

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.

The University Is Our Culture's Assertion That What Is Made By The Mind Has Value And Can Convey Values.