“ Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark. ”
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
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
For Tolstoy . . . anything that human beings do has its glory. . . . I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
