To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.