Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.