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

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

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

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.

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

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

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.