Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of Society is not natural to mankind. It cuts against the grain. A boy would like to follow his father in pursuit of food or prey. He would like to be doing serviceable things so far as his utmost strength allowed. He would like to be earning wages however small to help to keep up the home. He would like to have some leisure of his own to use or misuse as he pleased. He would ask little more than the right to work or starve. And then perhaps in the evenings a real love of learning would come to those who are worthy - and why try to stuff in those who are not? - and knowledge and thought would open the 'magic casements' of the mind.

I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast.

'In retrospect these years form not only the least agreeable, but the only barren and unhappy period of my life. I was happy as a child with my toys in my nurs…

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

If Soviet society is to move forward with confidence toward our great goals, each new generation must rise to an ever-higher level of learning and general cult…

You don't have to go to college to be a success ... We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society.

'Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants a…