Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.