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

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

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

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

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

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

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.