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

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.

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.

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.

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.