The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!
Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.
For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art; he is saying 'see what a nice person I am.
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.
The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.
what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.