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

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.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

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

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

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