Jacob Allee

“You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.”
― Douglas Wilson, Wordsmithy: Hot Tips for the Writing Life

“I confess I know not what a sceptic can answer to this, nor by what good argument he can plead even for a hearing; for either his reasoning is sophistry, and so deserves contempt; or there is no truth in the human faculties, and then why should we reason?”
― Thomas Reid, Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays

“They are doing for their pupils the work which the pupils themselves ought to do. For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning

“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire, secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol