"If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself."

-- Mortimer Adler

#Teacher Quotes #Book Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.”
“For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.”

Source : William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.10, Macmillan
“To play for your country is the best thing that can happen.”
“There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.”
“I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.”
“I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.”

Source : "Why Steven Tyler Needs to Stop" by Christopher R. Weingarten, www.esquire.com. January 20, 2011.
“Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and responsive to a changing world. By the same token, one could say that absolute homogeneity between family and school would reflect a static, authoritarian society and discourage creative, adaptive development in children.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)
“Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.”

Source : Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.86

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