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Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe.

Just as an individual's ability to delay gratification at a young age is a powerful predictor of future academic and professional achievement, discipline is also central to the long-run economic health of nations.

I think the principal purpose of education is to allow each of us, when we become adults, to shape our own future.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.