The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we must support a government agency that gives itself to the emotional and ideological manipulation of citizens is infamous.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.

We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.

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

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?

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.

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.