We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

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.

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

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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