My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.
Let the main object. . . to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of various authors, but in opening up their understanding to the outer world, so that a living stream may flow from their own minds, just as leaves, flowers, and fruit spring from the bud on a tree.
We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood. To hate people because they were born in another country, because they speak a different language, or because they take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . . Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.
The saying "He who teaches others, teaches himself" is very true, not only because constant repetition impresses a fact indelibly on the mind, but because the process of teaching itself gives deeper insight into the subject taught.
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.
I'm an abstract painter not just for myself, but because I really believe in abstraction.
But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.