Things Have Got To Be

There Are Certain Things In A Man That Have To Be Won, Not Forced; Inspired, Not Compelled. Among These Are Many, I Should Say Most, Of The Things That Constitute The Good Life. All Are Essential To Democracy. All Are Proof Against Its Enemies.

Liberal Learning Is Both A Safeguard Against False Ideas Of Freedom And A Source Of True Ones.

A College Education Is Not A Quantitative Body Of Memorized Knowledge Salted Away In A Card File. It Is A Taste For Knowledge, A Taste For Philosophy, If You Will; A Capacity To Explore, To Question To Perceive Relationships, Between Fields Of Knowledge And Experience.

There Will Be Certain Things In A Man That Have To Be Won, Not Forced; Inspired, Not Compelled.

The Liberal Arts Inform And Enlighten The Independent Citizen Of A Democracy In The Use Of His Own Resources.... They Enlarge His Capacity For Self-knowledge And Expand His Opportunities For Self-improvement.... They Are The Wellsprings Of A Free Society.