"The goal of education is not to teach students to think for themselves but to teach them to think rightly, not to encourage them to be...

"The Iliad, Oedipus, Republic, Ethics, Aeneid, Confessions, Inferno, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost are more than artifacts to be preserved. ...

"The role of the true critic, like that of the true educator, is not to indoctrinate the young in works that fit his own individual...

"It is not that we can never have new ideas or that society can never change, but that, being the kinds of creatures that we are, we must...