If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.

If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.