The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does. - Bertrand Russell

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children of immigrants. It is, however, unfortunate that a large part of this process should be effected by means of a somewhat blatant nationalism.

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.