The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

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

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

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

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

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