a shandean commonplace book

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world. Hannah Arendt, “The Crisis of Education”

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?                        Cesar Chavez

He who loves reading has everything within his reach.                        William Godwin

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton

Learning is a whole-hearted affair. John Dewey

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. Marston Bates

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated. Edith Hamilton