An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.