“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”

“If values are woven into the very concept of education, where is the need for separate value education?”

“Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

“There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.”

“One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.”