Roger

“The truly creative mind is hardly ever so much alone as when it is trying to be sociable. The”
― Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“When the bells justle in the tower
The hollow night amid,
Then on my tongue the taste is sour
Of all I ever did.”
― A.E. Housman, Additional Poems

“Today, partly because many “conservative” schools have borrowed discriminatingly from progressive innovations, we may easily forget how dismal and self-satisfied the older conservative pedagogy often was, how it accepted, or even exploited, the child’s classroom passivity, how much scope it afforded to excessively domineering teachers, how heavily it depended on rote learning. The main strength of progressivism came from its freshness in method. It tried to mobilize the interests of the child, to make good use of his need for activity, to concern the minds of teachers and educators with a more adequate sense of his nature, to set up pedagogical rules that would put the burden on the teacher not to be arbitrarily authoritative, and to develop the child’s capacity for expression as well as his ability to learn. It had the great merit of being experimental in a field in which too many people thought that all the truths had been established.”
― Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.”
― Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life