The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.