Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

don't leave without living

I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.

Osama bin Laden's death has been in the news all day. Leftish stations are going, 'President Obama saves the world.' Stations on the right are going, 'Obama kills fellow Muslim.'

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.