By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.