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.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

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

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.

The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.