Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

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.

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