Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do and not know, because knowledge that doesn't lead to doing something new or doing something better is not knowledge at all.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.