Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
You are fifty years old and would worship a day old statue!
… along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.
All students are capable of growth.
If you don’t set your writing — and teaching — at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
Pay attention to your students. Hear what they say, try to find out what their capacities are, what make sense to them. Adapt what you are doing and saying to those capacities, but make your students stretch upward.
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
