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

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

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

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Too few have the courage of my convictions.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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.