When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.