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.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

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

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.