Philosophy and Social Hope Quotes

“There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.”
― Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope

“The only point in having real live professors around instead of just computer terminals, videotapes and mimeoed lecture notes is that students need to have freedom enacted before their eyes by actual human beings. That is why tenure and academic freedom are more than just trade union demands. Teachers setting their own agendas — putting their individual, lovingly prepared specialities on display in the curricular cafeteria, without regard to any larger end, much less any institutional plan — is what non-vocational higher education is all about.”
― Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope