A Man Who Has Both Feet Planted

Schools Are Not Intended To Moralize A Wicked World, But To Impart Knowledge And Develop Intelligence, With Only Two Social Aims In Mind: Prepare To Take On One's Share In The World's Work, And Perhaps In Addition, Lend A Hand In Improving Society, After Schooling Is Done.

Let Us Face A Pluralistic World In Which There Are No Universal Churches, No Single Remedy For All Diseases, No One Way To Teach Or Write Or Sing, No Magic Diet, No World Poets, And No Chosen Races, But Only The Wretched And Wonderfully Diversified Human Race.

Shaw Does Not Merely Decorate A Proposition, But Makes His Way From Point To Point Through New And Difficult Territory. This Explains Why Shaw Must Either Be Taken Whole Or Left Alone. He Must Be Disassembled And Put Together Again With Nothing Left Out, Under Pain Of Incomprehension; For His Politics, His Art, And His Religion - To Say Nothing Of The Shape Of His Sentences - Are Unique Expressions Of This Enormously Enlarged And Yet Concentrated Consciousness.

We May Complain And Cavil At The Anarchy Which Is The Amateurs Natural Element, But In Soberness We Must Agree That If The Amateur Did Not Exist It Would Be Necessary To Invent Him.

The Danger That May Really Threaten (crime Fiction) Is That Soon There Will Be More Writers Than Readers