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.

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

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

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

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.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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