1. “Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible.”
2. “My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
3. “To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.”
4. “Education is a kind of continuing dialogue and a dialogue assumes different points of view.”
5. “Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.”
6. “The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.”
7. “The best education for the best is the best education for all.”
8. “The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.”
9. “Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.”
10. “Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.”
11. “Anybody who feels at ease in the world is a fool.”
12. “Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.”
13. “The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.”
14. “It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.”
15. “For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.”
