More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

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.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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