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

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.

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

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.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

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

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.