Weekend Words: Value
This week, in light of the news about Cooper Union, Weekend Words considers value.
This week Cooper Union, the renowned college of art, architecture and engineering in lower Manhattan, announced that it will reduce its historic full-tuition scholarship to 50% for the undergraduate class entering in the fall of 2014.
Hyperallergic reported that during the meeting in which the announcement was made, the internationally acclaimed artist Walid Raad, an associate professor at Cooper Union, told Mark Epstein, the chairman of college’s Board of Trustees, paraphrasing Oscar Wilde, “You know the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
Weekend Words considers value:
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
—Charles Darwin
“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.”
—Jean Cocteau
“When values go up, up, up,
And prices go down, down, down,
Robert Hall this season,
Will show you the reason:
Low overhead, Low overhead.”
—Robert Hall Clothes radio jingle, 1950s
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
—Stephen Hawking
