The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and under-nourishment.
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It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
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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.
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
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...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
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My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
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Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.
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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.
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The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
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We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.
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