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

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

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

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

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.

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

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