Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.
John Milton called his school Christ College ‘a stony-hearted stepmother’. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.
If one defines the term ‘dropout’ to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities then every business office government agency golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.