The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

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 object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

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.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

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