Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.
Instruction is important.
Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc. , that he can let his mind come to close quarters with the pupil's mind and the subject matter.
Hunger not to have, but to be
Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?
First of all, Mets fans despise me.
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.
When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.
Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence. . . you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.