"How does it happen that even today a couple of ordinary French stonemasons, or a carpenter and his apprentice, can put up a dovecote or a barn that has more architectural perfection than the piles of eclectic stupidity that grow up at the cost of millions of dollars on the campuses of American universities?”
Thomas Merton, “The Seven Story Mountain” (via We Are the Barbarians Living in the Ruins of a Superior Civilization