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

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

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.

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

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