The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.