“The Theater resides at the intersection of education and the arts. The arts are seen as a set of media with a potential for promoting profoundly educational experiences. They can allow for everyday concerns, so close and yet so distance, to be freshly apprehended… problems that must be addressed”

“Where are we as a modern civilization if our educational institutions conspire to train only a fraction of our capacities? and if this is all they can really do, then why not acknowledge that fact openly and give legitimacy to the other alternative forms of education that do cultivate those neglected dimensions of personality, instead of pretending that anything lying outside the standards set by the Wester analytic tradition is either inferior, anti-intellectual, or diabolic? (p. 293-294)”

“We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.”

“The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)”

“Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.”

“I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.”

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”