Honors College Faculty Resources

Universities have a hugely prestigious place in our societies. We go there to be taught how to make a living. We should also perhaps be going there to learn how to live.

One of the most famous commencement speeches in recent years by an excellent if tragic writer and professor; it is an inspiring and rousing endorsement of liberal studies, critical thinking, and self-determination; the ethical basis and foundation of modernity, democracy, and Western Civilization.