The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

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.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

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