I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescensionโthe attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Mark Van DorenWhen it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van DorenAn unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.
Mark Van Doren