Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

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.

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