Education without social action is a one‐sided value because it has no true power potential. Social action without education is a weak expression of pure energy.

It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education. Those who do not believe this have small imaginations.

The power of education extends beyond the development of skills we need for economic success. It can contribute to nation-building and reconciliation.

I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.