I said probably they were just scared he was going to put ideas in our heads. She smiled. "Imagine that. A teacher, putting ideas in kids' heads.

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

This came as a strange letdown, to see how the game always went to those who knew the rules without understanding the lesson.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.

I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.

The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

If you don't let a teacher know at what level you are—by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance—you will not learn or grow. You cannot pretend for long, for you will eventually be found out. Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.