“No great university can long remain great if it attempts to enforce the equivalent of a religious creed on its members. What really holds the members of the Harvard 'community' together is much more limited. It is simply a common commitment to pursue the truth through disciplined scholarship, and a faith that freedom of inquiry is the best means to arrive at the truth.”
“The Core gave birth to a lot of fantastically good courses that would not have existed in all likelihood without that kind of general education or core requirement.”
