Wednesday, September 29, 1999
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
Tuesday, September 28, 1999
Education is the art of making man ethical.
Georg Hegel
Monday, September 27, 1999
"Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit." Lichtenberg
Friday, September 24, 1999
"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art." W. R. Inge
Thursday, September 23, 1999
"Style and Substance are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." Vladimir Nabakov
Wednesday, September 22, 1999
"Take eloquence and wring its neck." Paul Verlaine
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
"Modest Doubt is called the beacon of the wise." Shakespeare
Friday, September 17, 1999
"What children need is not self-esteem, but self-control." Anonymous
Thursday, September 16, 1999
"Skepticism is the first step toward truth." Denis Dederot
Wednesday, September 15, 1999
"A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us." Franz Kafka
Tuesday, September 14, 1999
"When I use a word it means justs what I choose it to mean, neither more, nor less." Humpty Dumpty, from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Monday, September 13, 1999
"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs sthe security of all." John K. Kennedy
Friday, September 10, 1999
"We should read not to understand others, but to understand ourselves. E.M. Cioran
Thursday, September 9, 1999
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." Richard Steele
Wednesday, September 8, 1999
"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read." Mark Twain
Tuesday, September 7, 1999
"The limits of my language are the limits of my world." Luggenstein
Friday, September 3, 1999
"We should not teach great books; we should teach a
love of reading." B.F. Skinner
Thursday, September 2, 1999
"Education is what remains after you've forgotten everything you've been taught." B.F. Skinner
Wednesday, September 1, 1999
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." --Derek Bok, President of Harvard University