The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has no relation to any other subject. For the most part, we receive fragments of unrelated knowledge, and our education follows no logical format or pattern. It is exactly this kind of education that produces people who don’t have the ability to think for themselves and who are easily manipulated.

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.