Intimates Are Predestined.

My Rule In Making Up Examination Questions Is To Ask Questions Which I Can't Myself Answer. It Astounds Me To See How Some Of My Students Answer Questions Which Would Play The Deuce With Me.

After Gibbs, One The Most Distinguished [american Scientists] Was Langley, Of The Smithsonian. ... He Had The Physicist's Heinous Fault Of Professing To Know Nothing Between Flashes Of Intense Perception. ... Rigidly Denying Himself The Amusement Of Philosophy, Which Consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems, And Liked To Wander Past Them In A Courteous Temper, Even Bowing To Them Distantly As Though Recognizing Their Existence, While Doubting Their Respectibility.

The Chief Wonder Of Education Is That It Does Not Ruin Everybody Concerned In It, Teachers And Taught.

No Man, However Strong, Can Serve Ten Years As Schoolmaster, Priest, Or Senator, And Remain Fit For Anything Else. All The Dogmatic Stations In Life Have The Effect Of Fixing A Certain Stiffness Of Attitude Forever, As Though They Mesmerised The Subject.

Since [rousseau's] Time, And Largely Thanks To Him, The Ego Has Steadily Tended To Efface Itself, And, For Purposes Of Model, To Become A Manikin On Which The Toilet Of Education Is To Be Draped In Order To Show The Fit Or Misfit Of The Clothes. The Object Of Study Is The Garment, Not The Figure.