LEON BOTSTEIN

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

The notion of making everything we do, even in our bedroom, subject to litigation and courts, is a horrifying possibility.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

The notion of making everything we do, even in our bedroom, subject to litigation and courts, is a horrifying possibility.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.

If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.