Rick Rhodes

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

W.B. Yeats

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

Aristotle

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire and the White House will be adorned by an outright moron.

— H.L. Mencken, On Politics, A Carnival of Buncombe

By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5,000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.

— Umberto Eco