Alexander Meiklejohn

“Our task, as we face the future, is to create a new education, to create a new humanism.”

“The First Amendment is not the guardian of unregulated talkativeness.”

“When men govern themselves, it is they—and no one else—who must pass judgment upon unwisdom and unfairness and danger.”

“What is essential is not that everyone shall be permitted to talk, but that everything worth saying shall be said.”

“This is the most important challenge for the American people: to make freedom of speech a reality in their own lives.”

“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is being educated.”

“The vital point is that if we are to be free, we must learn to think for ourselves.”

“The principle of the freedom of speech is not a law of nature. It is a device of social contract.”

“A liberal education is one that enables a man to be at home in the world of ideas.”

“The purpose of all education is to make a man's mind a pleasant place for him to live in.”

“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”

“The rulers of a self-governing society are, and must be, the people themselves.”

“It is the primary task of the teacher to make a student a self-governing person.”