People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling aroun...d, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just walking around, An object of curiosity to some,... But you are too preoccupied By the secret smudge in the back of your soul To say much, and wander around, Smiling to yourself and others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A little quaker, the whole body of him trembling, His absurd whiskers sticking out like a cartoon-mouse,... His feet like small leaves, Little lizard-feet, Whitish and spread wide when he tried to struggle away,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The city mouse eats bread and cheese;-- The garden mouse eats what he can;... We will not grudge him seeds and stocks, Poor little timid furry man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Rousseau's view (1762). . . most of the problems of education are problems of motivation, as teachers try to rush things. They ...talk of geography before the child knows the way around his own backyard. They teach history before the child understand anything about adult motivation. . . . It would be far better, to let questions arise naturally. . . . When a child is self-motivated, the teacher cannot keep him from learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; when his lamp shone over my head, and by his lig...ht I walked through darkness; when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was upon my tent; when the Almighty was still with me, when my children were around me; when my steps were washed with milk, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil! When I went out to the gate of the city, when I took my seat in the square, the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose up and stood...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »