There Is No Real Education That Does

The Real Community Of Man, In The Midst Of All The Self-contradictory Simulacra Of Community, Is The Community Of Those Who Seek The Truth, Of The Potential Knowers, That Is, In Principle, Of All Men To The Extent They Desire To Know. But In Fact This Includes Only A Few, The True Friends, As Plato Was To Aristotle At The Very Moment They Were Disagreeing About The Nature Of The Good.

The Students [of The 60's] Substituted Conspicuous Compassion For Their Parents' Conspicuous Consumption.

Reason Cannot Establish Values, And Its Belief That It Can Is The Stupidest And Most Pernicious Illusion.

There Is One Thing A Professor Can Be Absolutely Certain Of: Almost Every Student Entering The University Believes, Or Says He Believes, That Truth Is Relative.

We Need History, Not To Tell Us What Happened Or To Explain The Past, But To Make The Past Alive So That It Can Explain Us And Make A Future Possible.