It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

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

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.