Sayings

Technical proficiency is not an escape clause

Read against the machine The all-administrative university

An academic desk with instruments, circuit boards, notes, and an open book.
Illustration generated with ChatGPT by OpenAI, prompted and selected by Greg Conrad Smith, 2026.

Whatever the relative merits of humanistic education and scientific training, technical proficiency is not an escape clause to the question, ‘How shall we live?’