In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
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