For their efforts at training new teachers, San Diego State has been named the top winner of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Polly Awards, handed out each year for outrageous examples of political correctness on college campuses.

These days, taking issue with making a god of self-esteem probably places one somewhere between Atilla the Hun and the early Desert Fathers. But so be it!

To provoke the student, the potential philosopher, he must first be teachable, eminently teachable.

Each year a professor stands in some awe as he watches yet another class walk out the doors and into their world.

My father, I believe, danced well, a talent that quite pleased the family.

Self-discipline can become a form of pride in which we attribute to ourselves complete mastery over ourselves with no willingness to guide ourselves to ends that are to be served or people to be loved.

Certain questions, good questions, never seem to be asked any more.

If we set out to write a novel for the purpose of discovering ourselves, the worst thing that can happen to us is actually to find ourselves...

Jacques Maritain wrote one book (Education at the Crossroads) and several essays (collected in The Education of Man) on education.

Liberal education agrees with Plato that self-rule is at the heart of civil order.