Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

The curriculum of the future will be what one might call the humanistic curriculum.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

Enlightened social engineering is required to face situations that demand global action now.

We have come to love darkness of religion rather than striving to understand how the world is supposed to function.

To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.

You will never become rich, until you hate poverty

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

A dog, however nice he is, and sweet-tempered, doesn't have much of a range of options. A human being does.