We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

In my opinion, much of the so-called science of "education" was invented as a necessary mechanism for enabling semi-educated people to act as tolerable teachers.