Education, learning, epistemology
How would I know?
Education, learning, epistemology
“That’s the happiness of you young people. You don’t know what it Is to be low in your feelings. You always have your appetites too, and what a comfort that is.”
Dickens, the curiosity shop
Summer day outside doing nothing beats doing anything indoors
But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The mystics are very likely to be the martyrs when the psychologists become the kings.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The point is, that the poor in London are not left alone, but rather deafened and bewildered with raucous and despotic advice. They are not like sheep without a shepherd. They are more like one sheep whom twenty-seven shepherds are shouting at. All the newspapers, all the new advertisements, all the new medicines and new theologies, all the glare a
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
understand all of their subject except their subject. They were, I suppose, bred and born in that brier–patch, and have really explored it without coming to the end of it. That is, they have studied everything but the question of what they are studying.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
'Beg your pardon, sir,' said Mr. Weller, senior, taking off his hat, 'I hope you've no fault to find with Sammy, Sir?' 'None whatever,' said Mr. Pickwick. 'Wery glad to hear it, sir,' replied the old man; 'I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for hisself. It's the only wa
... See moreCHARLES DICKENS • THE PICKWICK PAPERS (illustrated, complete, and unabridged)
The truth is, that there is nothing in common at all between these teachers, except that they teach. In short, the only thing they share is the one thing they profess to dislike: the general idea of authority.