A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.
Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.
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.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.
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 schools without education.
Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'
On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
The death of a democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.
When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
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