Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Our danger is not too few, but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

Our danger is not too few but too many options ... to be puzzled by innumerable alternatives.

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

If they don’t respect you, respect yourself and leave that situation.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.

Don't get stuck in your grieving, look to heaven ... God has more in store for you.

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.