It Is A Barren Kind Of Criticism

Liberal Learning Is Both A Safeguard Against False Ideas Of Freedom And A Source Of True Ones.

Could Hamlet Have Been Written By A Committee, Or The "mona Lisa" Painted By A Club? Could The New Testament Have Been Composed As A Conference Report? Creative Ideas Do Not Spring From Groups. They Spring From Individuals. The Divine Spark Leaps From The Finger Of God To The Finger Of Adam, Whether It Takes Ultimate Shape In A Law Of Physics Or A Law Of The Land, A Poem Or A Policy, A Sonata Or A Mechanical Computer.

It Is A Barren Kind Of Criticism Which Tells You What A Thing Is Not.

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 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.