American Parents, On The Whole, Do Not

The Primary Purpose Of A Liberal Education Is To Make One's Mind A Pleasant Place In Which To Spend One's Leisure.

The Lusts Of The Flesh Can Be Gratified Anywhere; It Is Not This Sort Of License That Distinguishes New York. It Is Rather, A Lust Of The Total Ego For Recognition, Even For Eminence. More Than Elsewhere, Everybody Here Wants To Be Somebody.

A Truly Successful Person Knows How To Overcome The Past, Use The Present, And Prepare For The Future-but Unless We Can First Surmount The Past, We Cannot Effectively Cope With Either The Present Or The Future.

Usually, If We Hate, It Is The Shadow Of The Person That We Hate, Rather Than The Substance. We May Hate A Person Because He Reminds Us Of Someone We Feared And Disliked When Younger; Or Because We See In Him Some Gross Caricature Of What We Find Repugnant In Ourself; Or Because He Symbolizes An Attitude That Seems To Threaten Us.

A University Is Not, Primarily, A Place In Which To Learn How To Make A Living; It Is A Place In Which To Learn How To Be More Fully A Human Being, How To Draw Upon One's Resources, How To Discipline The Mind And Expand The Imagination; How To Make Some Sense Out Of The Big World We Will Shortly Be Thrown Into.