A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

Horowitz draws a sharp boundary between the mission of higher education and the aims of partisan politics. The first clause argues that a university’s institutional purpose is not to function as a vehicle for a party program or electoral agenda; it should protect plural inquiry rather than mobilize adherents. The second clause distinguishes education—understood as cultivating critical thinking, knowledge, and intellectual independence—from indoctrination, which seeks to secure assent to a predetermined ideology. The pairing implies a warning: when universities adopt partisan commitments, teaching can slide from open-ended inquiry into coercive or one-sided formation. The quote thus encapsulates Horowitz’s broader critique of perceived ideological conformity in academia.