Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist..

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investi….

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw..

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university..

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one..

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked..

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do ….

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America..

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational a….

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die..

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe….

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment..

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable..

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

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

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..

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….

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

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

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