Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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