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.

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

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

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

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

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

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