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> [It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/it-would-be-foolish-and-wrong-to-ignore-the-fact-that-all-our/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

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## More by Vincent Massey

> [In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/in-fact-in-the-far-north-one-sees-the-northern-lights-facing-south/)

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> [It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/it-is-the-university-s-function-to-turn-out-well-balanced-persons/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/we-are-not-born-of-the-passions-of-war-or-of-the-fervours-of/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/old-wives-tales-are-not-enough-in-a-day-when-old-wives-and-old-men/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/canada-is-not-a-melting-pot-canada-is-an-association-of-peoples-who/)

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> [The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/the-great-menace-of-civilization-in-the-present-is-that-we-offer-an/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/it-would-be-foolish-and-wrong-to-ignore-the-fact-that-all-our/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/we-can-best-serve-the-cause-of-canadian-unity-and-understanding-by/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/technology-has-been-defined-perhaps-a-little-ungenerously-as-a-long/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/how-great-a-quality-is-horse-sense-someone-has-defined-it-as-that/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/in-opening-and-conquering-a-country-great-and-wild-and-rich-a-country/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/the-age-which-we-live-in-is-not-suited-to-idle-complacency-or-to/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/history-is-the-necessary-food-of-good-and-noble-sentiments-it-ought/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/the-neglect-of-the-humanities-in-present-day-education-is-doubtless/)

[Vincent Massey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-massey/)

> [I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-massey/i-have-had-what-might-be-called-a-post-graduate-course-in-the-most/)

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