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.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

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