To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect..

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness..

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool..

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization b….

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects..

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame th….

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view..

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives..

The best education for the best is the best education for all..

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things..

Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician..

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the Am….

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues..

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria..

Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes..

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think..

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism..

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having sc….

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic..

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'.