It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

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

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

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.

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