Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.

The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.