Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.
An educated mind is practiced in the uses of reason, which inevitably leads to a skeptical outlook.
The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.
You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.
If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
Had someone from Serbia flown a Greater Serbia flag in Tirana or Pristina, it would become an issue for the U. N. Security Council.
I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.
I believe that mediocrity is self-inflicted and that genius is self-bestowed.