The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Life is neither a feast nor a spectacle, but a predicament.

'In America literary reputations come and go so swiftly,' I complained, fatuously. [Santayana's] answer was swift. 'It would be insufferable if they did not.'

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read - and they have been many, big, and heavy - I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by p…

When I was younger I took jazz, but the teacher yelled at me and I never went back, ever again!

We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-ess…