“The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

“Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.”

“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults.""You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.”

“How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?”

“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England. But fellow students had complained that Irish living together in large numbers sooner or later got noisy and violent and there was no handling them. Accordingly, the universities imposed a quota system on Irishman, and decreed that those admitted must be scattered around among non-compatriots: exclusively Irish halls of residence were banned.”