Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.

A people's memory is history. A people without a history can grow neither wiser nor better.

Always in these matters desiring rather to be taught than to teach.

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…