The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.