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

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

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.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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

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.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.