30 best mark van doren quotes with image

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Art of teaching is the art of assisting discoveryThe only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. Our best chance for happiness is education. Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth. Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it.

Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better. Respect for the Truth is an acquired taste. There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

The art of reading is the art of adopting the pace the author has set. Some books are fast and some are slow, but no book can be understood if it is taken at the wrong speed. If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. To fail to love is not to exist at all. The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity.

No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.