Lesson learned, with assurances that we will certainly not fuhgedaboudit. Such an education is not only crucial to our children's chance for peace and freedom in their lifetimes, but is, moreover, a joy and a privilege to experience. The goal of education is not only the accumulation of a body of information, just as the purpose of a life is not the accumulation of possessions. Academic rigor and diversity are not on opposing ends of the same spectrum. I have every confidence that Oberlin, and every other institution so dedicated, can attain both, to the exclusion of neither.
Diversity is an inextricable ingredient of true excellence.
We traveled in a Hume family automobile. The trip almost ended on the Pennsylvania turnpike when, traveling east, the car skidded for what seemed like eons and light years across the median strip, and we were suddenly going backwards in the westbound lane. Osborne and Ken muttered something about waiting in the car while Jack and I went in. I was puzzled. So was Jack.