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

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

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

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

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.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.