Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
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We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
Yes, I am proud, and very humble too.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it is clearly formulated in the child's mind, as to teach the name of an object.
We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
