Education and Citizenship: Conversation with Joseph Tussman (Conversations with History, UC Berkeley), page 5: Lessons Learned

Joseph Tussman · c. 2000

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Student choice in what to study is a disaster

Their wordsI think student choice is a disaster.

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Student choice in what to study is a disaster

Their wordsI think student choice is a disaster.
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The intellectual life is not selling ideas but coming together to determine the truth and significance of things

Their wordsThe intellectual life isn't the life of selling ideas, it's the life of coming together to try to determine the truth and significance of things.
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A marketplace is fine for shopping, but real life begins after you leave the store

Their wordsA marketplace is all right for a marketplace, that's where you go to shop. But as I've put it somewhere, real life begins after you leave the store.
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The American Constitution provides flexible institutions for making decisions together as a community

Their wordsI'm a great believer in the American Constitution. I think it provides a set of institutions and a program for making decisions together as a community that are flexible and hospitable and can be used, and I think we're very lucky to operate within their framework.

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