There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.