I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

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

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.