It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

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

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

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.

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.