The Recklessness With Which We Sacrifice Our

Childhood Is Not Merely Basic Training For Utilitarian Adulthood. It Should Have Some Claims Upon Our Mercy, Not For Its Future Value To The Economic Interests Of Competitive Societies But For Its Present Value As A Perishable Piece Of Life Itself.

Political Struggle Is The Most Important Thing Any Of Us Can Do As A Citizen In A Democracy; And That Means The Old Joining The Young To Fight For Elemental Kinds Of Justice.

The First Goal And Primary Function Of The U.s. Public School Is Not To Educate Good People, But Good Citizens. It Is The Function Which We Call - In Enemy Nations - 'state Indoctrination.'

Children Sometimes Understand Things That Most Grown-ups Do Not See.

Pick Battles Big Enough To Matter, Small Enough To Win.