“The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.”

“The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all...”

“For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in pl...”

“Education must be based on the certainty that faults cannot be atoned for or blotted out, but must always have their consequences....”

“The work of popular education, the temperance movement, the peace movement, are to a great extent carried on by the young. Their m...”

“Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.”

“If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one...”

“All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to o...”

“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesm...”

“Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.”

“My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a han...”

“My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.”