The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.