I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that ed...
If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities then every business office government agency golf club and university faculty would y...
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
The good society is not one that ignores individual differences but one that deals with them wisely and humanely.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in ph...