A well-known magazine asks a man how they should refer to him, as Psychologist X, as Author X? He suggests man of letters, for that is what he is, in the eighteenth-century meaning. But they can't buy that because the word doesn't exist in Time-style; he cannot be that, and presumably the old function of letters cannot exist.

The issue is not whether people are 'good enough' for a particular type of society; rather it is a matter of developing the kind of social institutions that are most conducive to expanding the potentialities we have for intelligence, grace, sociability and freedom.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ".

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.