No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand read more

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of
of the heart.

To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of
of the heart.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, read more

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. - The Upton Letters.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am read more

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

Philosophy is the science which considers truth