“ Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. ”
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension—the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
~ Mark Van Doren
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
