Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

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

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

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.

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

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.