If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be. — 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… — 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… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you want to predict the future of our land, go to school and look around. — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and… — 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
