We are shocked when we see educators, timid before criticism and confused about first principles, betray their trust. And we wonder what can be that ‘philosophy of education’ which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist

Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 1, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168
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Regarding knee-jerk reactions from higher education when accused of disloyalty for having controversial speakers on campus. Reprinted in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954).