Give Me A Child And I'll Shape

We Shouldn't Teach Great Books; We Should Teach A Love Of Reading. Knowing The Contents Of A Few Works Of Literature Is A Trivial Achievement. Being Inclined To Go On Reading Is A Great Achievement.

...not Everyone Is Willing To Defend A Position Of 'not Knowing.' There Is No Virtue In Ignorance For Its Own Sake.

The Alphabet Was A Great Invention, Which Enabled Men To Store And To Learn With Little Effort What Others Had Learned The Hard Way-that Is, To Learn From Books Rather Than From Direct, Possibly Painful, Contact With The Real World.

Unable To Understand How Or Why The Person We See Behaves As He Does, We Attribute His Behavior To A Person We Cannot See, Whose Behavior We Cannot Explain Either But About Whom We Are Not Inclined To Ask Questions.

The Major Difference Between Rats And People Is That Rats Learn From Experience.