historian
and educator, and President of Yale University
, New Haven, CT, USA.
Born in Morristown, New Jersey
, he attended Hotchkiss School
before obtaining his B.A.
from Yale University in 1929. Griswold was a descendant, on his mother's side, of Eli Whitney
, and of six colonial governors of Connecticut
on his father's side.
Griswold, along with a handful of students and faculty members, founded the Yale Political Union
.
A Socrates in every classroom.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.