The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the read more

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance read more

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic read more

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university read more

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art read more

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -Aristotle.