Henry Merritt Wriston (July 4, 1889-1978) was a United States educator and served as president at both Brown University and Lawrence University

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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

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