Laughter is inner jogging.
Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts. . . it is to teach them to think.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now. . . My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.