If It Were Not For The Great

The Hardest Conviction To Get Into The Mind Of A Beginner Is That The Education Upon Which He Is Engaged Is Not A College Course, Not A Medical Course, But A Life Course, For Which The Work Of A Few Years Under Teachers Is But A Preparation.

Half Of Us Are Blind, Few Of Us Feel, And We Are All Deaf.

To Have Striven, To Have Made The Effort, To Have Been True To Certain Ideals - This Alone Is Worth The Struggle.

Take The Sum Of Human Achievement In Action, In Science, In Art, In Literature Subtract The Work Of The Men Above Forty, And While We Should Miss Great Treasures, Even Priceless Treasures, We Would Practically Be Where We Are Today ... The Effective, Moving, Vitalizing Work Of The World Is Done Between The Ages Of Twenty-five And Forty.

The Successful Teacher Is No Longer On A Height, Pumping Knowledge At High Pressure Into Passive Receptacles.