"The basis of all education is to learn by doing."

“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.”

“We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.”

“Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.”

“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”

“You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.”

“It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.”

“There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.”