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 most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

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

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