Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

History is a bath of blood.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.