My office is my tour bus.
In trying to teach children a great deal in a short time, they are treated not as though the race they were to run was for life, but simply a three-mile heat.
He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only two absolute grounds of exemption from attendance are sickness and death.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
One down," Beckendorf said. "About five thousand to go. " He tossed me a jar of thick green liquid—Greek fire, one of the most dangerous magical substances in the world. Then he threw me another essential tool of demigod heroes—duct tape
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.