I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very poor to lend their credence to a market system that has proved so obdurate and so resistant to their pleas at every turn?

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books.

The world no doubt is the best or most serviceable schoolmaster; but the world's curriculum does not include Latin and Greek.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,-the balance wheel of the social machinery.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning- the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish, good sense.