To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. - Robertson Davies
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
- Robertson Davies
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. - Robertson Davies
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. - Robertson Davies
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse… - Robertson Davies
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse…
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. - Robertson Davies
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. - Robertson Davies
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. - Robertson Davies
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket. - Robertson Davies
There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
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