Wow this place is really big isn't it? They must do proper stuff here, like opera and all that. . . shite.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori
An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory.
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.