People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing i….

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be..

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education..

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousn….

There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of s….

The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support….

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words..

If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have g….

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave..

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people tho….

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinar….

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian..

We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to pro….

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever ch….

Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simp….

In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done….

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique..

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact..

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, howev….

Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educat….

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?.