“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.”

“The education of the Nazi elite, it turns out, is the education of super-racketeers and gangsters from among the biologically superior. The concept of ‘noblesse oblige’ is transformed into its polar opposite;…”

“Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”

“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

“Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!”

“… a severe woman with a patient but unprevaricating gaze, who turned out to be Indira Gandhi.”

“American literature offers scarcely one working model for high education. The student must go back, beyond Jean Jacques, to Benjamin Franklin, to find a model even of self-teaching. Except in the abandoned sphere of the dead languages, no one has discussed what part of education has, in his personal experience, turned out to be useful, and what not. This volume attempts to discuss it.”