The Harvard University of the 1950's is described in terms of the requirements of the good" university of the future. Learning, academic freedom, excellence, participation in the life of the academic community, and respect for the dignity and humanity of all its members are seen as vital. (SE)

The elements of his descriptive diagnosis of today's social, intellectual, and educational scene are: semantic confusion in social relations, resistance to authority, fear of new discoveries, impatience with experience, utopianism, and the suspicion that learning itself is repressive. (SE)

Academic freedom includes the freedom to be wrong and that right of critical expression is one of the odd but inevitable epiphenomena attached to the necessary processes of instruction and research. Academically based criticism (of our society) shows' itself on every hand." (SE)