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

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

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