What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.