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.
Jacques BarzunGrab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
Jacques BarzunHighly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
Jacques BarzunThe world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Jacques Barzun