Category Archives: Commonplace Book

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy … Continue reading →

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats

“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists.  Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the … Continue reading →

“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”    E. M. Forster

“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”   Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams