“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.” IfsWould BeHumanityGamesLossInterestingStudentsFootballCollegeBrokenArmsHumorousIncreaseLegsNecksFacultyCollege FootballTrustees Author:H. L. Mencken
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesKidsFacesHumanityFallDarkFieldsCollegeGayOne DayLeagueBigotryHomosexualityStereotypeAdoreLeatherHomophobiaYour Best FriendGay MenLittle League Book:Loud and Clear Source: Loud and Clear
“At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.” PeopleIfsShowsSchoolNightHumanityEducationHalfMillionsGenerationsFrontsTaughtCollegeHundredPoliceLawyerSeatsWickedInstructionOppressedWorldlyNeglectedRespectableBourgeoisMy GenerationYoungstersFreshmanBartenderGiddyMidwifeLieutenantsSophomoreWorldly WisdomCollege Freshmen Author:H. L. Mencken
“Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject, ethics, logic, philosophy, the humanities and sociology, in fact everything that is part of how we live and react to one another.” KnowsLittlesPhilosophyFactsPastHumanityTeachEconomySubjectsCollegeEthicsEconomicsLogicEconomistSociology Author:Bernard Baruch
“One of the things that is nice about these old pastors - they were young at the time - who went into the Middle West is that they were real humanists. They were often linguists, for example, and the schools that they established were then, as they are now, real liberal arts colleges where people studied the humanities in a very broad sense. I think that should be reflected in his mind; appropriately, it is.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindArtRealSchoolYoungHumanityNiceMiddleExampleCollegeWestBroadsPastorLiberal ArtsLinguistsLiberal Arts College Author:Marilynne Robinson
“When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.” HumanityNamesTeacherWonderfulTaughtCollegeGreat ThingsReally GreatIowaFreshmanCarolsWonderful Teacher Author:Edward Hirsch