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

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

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

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

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

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.