If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
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.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhap...
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.