That is the future and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed to assimilate it find meaning in it and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
If you have both feet planted on level ground then the university has failed you.
If your professor wrote it its as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
The university brings out all abilities including incapability.
That is the future and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must rise above the obsession with quantity of information and speed of transmission and recognize that the key issue for us is our ability to organize this information once it has been amassed to assimilate it find meaning in it and assure its survival for use by generations to come.
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.