Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

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

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.