We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for - and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.