Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random 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
