Quotes by Sidney Hook

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Where an intelligent grasp of principles requires a knowledge of mathematics, its fundamental ideas should be presented in such a way that students carry away the sense of mathematics not only as a tool for the solution of problems but as a study of types of order, system, and language.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.