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

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

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues.

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

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.

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

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