Education: Unconquered Frontier

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"Christopher Fry said recently that 'affairs are now soul-size.' The American colleges must recognize this fact and remember again that the true business of liberal education is greatness. It is our task not to produce 'safe' men, in whom our safety can never in any case lie, but to keep alive in young people the courage to dare to seek the truth, to be free, to establish in them a compelling desire to live greatly and magnanimously, and to give them the knowledge and awareness, the faith and the trained facility to get on with the job. Especially the faith, for as someone has said, the whole world now looks to us for a creed to believe and a song to sing. The whole world . . . and our own young people first of all."