Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is read more

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.