"I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life."

"Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed."

"Truth comes to us mediated by human love."

"Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me."

"An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home."

"Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past."

"Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete."

"My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine."