An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.