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.

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.

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

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.