Things Have Got To Be

A College Education Is Not A Quantitative Body Of Memorized Knowledge Salted Away In A Card File. It Is A Taste For Knowledge, A Taste For Philosophy, If You Will; A Capacity To Explore, To Question To Perceive Relationships, Between Fields Of Knowledge And Experience.

Books Won't Stay Banned. They Won't Burn. Ideas Won't Go To Jail.

There Are Certain Things In A Man That Have To Be Won, Not Forced; Inspired, Not Compelled. Among These Are Many, I Should Say Most, Of The Things That Constitute The Good Life. All Are Essential To Democracy. All Are Proof Against Its Enemies.

There Are Certain Things That We Can Accomplish By Law And There Are Certain Things That We Cannot Accomplish By Law Or By Any Process Of Government. We Cannot Legislate Intelligence. We Cannot Legislate Morality. Nor Can We Legislate Loyalty, For Loyalty Is A Kind Of Morality.

A Socrates In Every Classroom.