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The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of read more
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.
Only God helps the badly dressed.
Only God helps the badly dressed.
...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established read more
...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
I believe the best social program is a job.
I believe the best social program is a job.