My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

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

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.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.

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.