I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.