I would remind you...that Socrates was executed not for saying what things were or should be, but for seeking practical indications of where some reasonable approximation of truth might be. He was executed not for his megalomania or grandiose propositions or certitudes, but for stubbornly doubting the absolute truths of others.

Because the managerial elites are now so large and have such a dominant effect on our educational system, we are actually teaching most people to manage, not t…

[T]hree of [Newt Gingrich's] 'Five Principles of American Civilization' deal with business, technology, and organization - all characteristics of work. There i…

[O]ur elite is primarily and increasingly managerial. A managerial elite manages. A crisis, unfortunately, requires thought. Thought is not a management functi…

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be, Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.

Que sais-je?

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.