Educator Quotes

Science is all metaphor.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The universe is an intelligence test.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Think for yourself and question authority.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?

We've always had issues up for discussion at Catholic universities.

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

The Spirit hasn't deserted the church today.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.

Others don't want to listen to viewpoints that members of the church have.

One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.