- Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience.
Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas... - Governments must ensure that their major cities receive the financial support they need in order to thrive,
because it is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural... - All nations should help support the development of
a global university designed to engage students in... - People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate
situation or surroundings than by any internal characteristic... - Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them.
The governments of countries in which these languages... - It is necessary for everyone to read poetry, novels,
mythology and other types of imaginative literature... - The stability of a society depends on how it responds
to the extremes of human behavior... - Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life are entirely harmless,
in fact, they actually prevent people from developing... - There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and,
even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust... - Only by being forced to defend an idea against the
doubts and contrasting views of others does one really...
