The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
From Terry Eagleton
Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
I value my Catholic background very much. It taught me not to be afraid of rigorous thought, for one thing.
The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.
Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.
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