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.

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

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

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

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

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.