Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them..

A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not b….

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and a….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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..

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

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….

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