The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

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

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

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.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.