For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.