I Used To Think Great Teachers Inspire

The World Is Made Of Sugar And Dirt.

I Used To Think Great Teachers Inspire You. Now I Think I Had It Wrong. Good Teachers Inspire You; Great Teachers Show You How To Inspire Yourself Every Day Of Your Life. They Don't Show You Their Magic. They Show You How To Make Magic Of Your Own.

That's How The Germans Are.... The Aristocrats At The Top Hard As Glass, Cold As Ice, Servants Of The King, The Working Masses Willing, Pliable, Sentimental, Susceptible To Brutality, The Middle Class Educated And Cowardly To The Point Of Servility.

Next-door A Baker's Apprentice With His Wife, An Employee In A Printing-shop, She Has Inflammation Of The Ovaries. Wonder What Those Two Get Out Of Life? Well, First Of All, They Get Each Other, Then Last Sunday A Vaudeville And A Film, Then This Or That Club Meeting And A Visit To His Parents. Nothing Else? Well Now, Don't Drop Dead, Sir. Add To That Nice Weather, Bad Weather, Country Picnics, Standing In Front Of The Stove, Eating Breakfast And So On. And What More Do You Get, You, Captain, General, Jockey, Whoever You Are? Don't Fool Yourself.

My Books, At Any Rate, Deserved To Be Burned.