“Only in some very special cases is comprehension the point of reading--in things like recipes and "reading material." The point of reading is understanding, and comprehension is to understanding as getting wet is to swimming. You must do the one… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Like prepositional phrases, certain structural arrangements in English are much more important than the small bones of grammar in its most technical sense. It… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
