“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ”

“Freedom in education has many aspects. There is first of all freedom to learn or not to learn. Then there is freedom as to what to learn. And in later education there is freedom of opinion.”

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”

“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”

“New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.”

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”