Robert F. Goheen quotes

“If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.”
-- Robert F. Goheen

Source : 1961 Baccalaureate address. Reported in Time magazine, 23 Jun.

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“In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.”
-- Robert F. Goheen

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“University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.”
-- Robert F. Goheen

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“Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”

“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”

Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.”

“Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.”

“I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.”

“The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.”

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”

“If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.”