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.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.

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

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

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