“People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.”

“The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human history, such as that people of all races and creeds have equal rights, that women should be free from all forms of coercion, that children should never, ever be spanked, that students should be protected from bullying, and that there’s nothing wrong with being gay. I don’t find it at all implausible that these are gifts, in part, of a refined and widening application of reason.”

“I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.”

“If everybody were compelled to have the proper kind of education, we'd have a better world. If we force people to do good, they will be free to be happy.”

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.”