The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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

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.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

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.

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.