Leon Botstein quotes
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“If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.”
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“Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.”
-- Leon BotsteinSource : Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”
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“Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.”
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“At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.”
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“I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.”
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“No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues his or her vocation by getting right answers from a set of prescribed alternatives that trivialize complexity and ambiguity.”
-- Leon Botstein
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Source : "Fame and Fingernails as a TV Mobster's Wife". Interview with Robin Finn, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2001.
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“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”
Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
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Source : "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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