Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.