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

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

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

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

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

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.