There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in the company of prophets than of critics.

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work

Learning is finding out what you already know -Richard Bach.

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.