It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

The best education for the best is the best education for all.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

We come to the table not because we are holy, but because we are in need of His holiness. We come to the table not because we are strong, but because we are weak and in need of His strength.

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss.

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and still isn't.

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.