Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have g… - Richard Mitchell
If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own minds, then the task you have g…
- Richard Mitchell
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits? - Richard Mitchell
When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinar… - Richard Mitchell
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinar…
There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. - Richard Mitchell
There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, howev… - Richard Mitchell
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, howev…
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of s… - Richard Mitchell
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of s…
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. - Richard Mitchell
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. - Richard Mitchell
Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educat… - Richard Mitchell
Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educat…
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