Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. [Acts 26:24]
Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11]
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.
Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?