they were too much troubled and knocked about to learn; they could no more do that to advantage, than any one can do anything to advantage in a life of constant misfortune, torment, and worry.

those who can't use it properly often end up feeling helpless and confused and as though they have no impact on what is happening to them. In other words, they end up feeling External.

No matter how much their students might like them, educators who don’t raise scholastic achievement will be branded as unfit to be teachers. It sounds just like a money-losing venture made up of a group of friends.

Readers can coach, guide, advise, teach, and shed light on a dark corner, and are tremendously valuable in these ways, but they cannot fix a thing for someone else.

while everyone in the class liked him, we all felt sorry for him. He always seemed so lonely. We knew his wife had left him. We knew he lived in a small apartment and didn’t have much money. But we loved him; we spent a lot of time talking about what a great guy he was and what a shame it was that he was in that situation. “Can you see a thought pa