I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

The development occurs through reciprocal give-and-take, the teacher taking but not being afraid also to give.

Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and forms of government or control, than existed in an entire continent at an earlier epoch.

The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us do not present themselves on the surface of our ordinary experiences.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Where there is giving there must be taking.

Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.