History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

If you do not actually like boys and girls, or young men and young women, give up teaching.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

Like all great teachers he knew that a picture is worth a thousand words and that people learn most quickly by doing something or seeing something done.