Gregory S. Prince, Jr.
5 quotes
Biography
Gregory Smith Prince Jr. became Hampshire College's fourth president in 1989 and retired in 2005.
"Education has multiple purposes, but learning how to ask essential questions and how to challenge dogma,tradition, and injustice in appropriate and constructive ways is its highest purposes."
"Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy."
"Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly"
"As the world fights those who use violence to advance their agenda, engagement, not neutrality,is needed in our educational systems."
"They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values."