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Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

As a proud Catholic, I know the impact that faith-based education can have in our society and have witnessed it first hand in my district.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.

By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.

Indeed, the study of universities and the great men and women who have attended them leads me to think that the best of these schools are characterized not so much by what they teach and how they teach it but by the extent they provide opportunities and encouragement for students to teach themselves.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.