Innovation Is A Twofold Threat To Academic

History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has No Conscience.

Of All Forms Of Mental Activity, The Most Difficult To Induce Even In The Minds Of The Young, Who May Be Presumed Not To Have Lost Their Flexibility, Is The Art Of Handling The Same Bundle Of Data As Before, But Placing Them In A New System Of Relations With One Another By Giving Them A Different Framework, All Of Which Virtually Means Putting On A Different Kind Of Thinking-cap For The Moment. It Is Easy To Teach Anybody A New Fact...but It Needs Light From Heaven Above To Enable A Teacher To Break The Old Framework In Which The Student Is Accustomed To Seeing.

Two Half-truths Do Not Make A Truth, And Two Half- Cultures Do Not Make A Culture

The Purposiveness Of All Vital Processes, The Strategy Of The Genes And The Power Of The Exploratory Drive In Animal And Man, All Seem To Indicate That The Pull Of The Future Is As Real As The Pressure Of The Past.

The Inner Defenses Are Unconscious. They Consist Of A Kind Of Magic Aura Which The Mind Builds Around Cherished Belief. Arguments Which Penetrate Into The Magic Aura Are Not Dealt With Rationally But By A Specific Type Of Pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities And Contradictions Are Made Acceptable By Specious Rationalizations.