“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”
“Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it”
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise - specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine”
