Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recog...nize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and be...tter understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored th...ough it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledg...e. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication ...of literary criticism.... Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge, like matter, [my father] would affirm, was divisible in infinitum;Mthat the grains and scruples were as much a part of ...it, as the gravitation of the whole world.--In a word, he would say, error was error,--no matter where it fell,--whether in a fraction,--or a pound,--'twas alike fatal to truth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the savage state every family owns a shelter as good as the best, and sufficient for its coarser and simpler wants; but I think... that I speak within bounds when I say that, though the birds of the air have their nests, and the foxes their holes, and the savages their wigwams, in modern civilized society not more than one half the families own a shelter. In the large towns and cities, where civilization especially prevails, the number of those who own a shelter is a very small fraction of the whole. The rest pay an annual tax for this outside garment ... which would buy a village of Indian wigwams, but now helps to keep them poor as long as they live.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »