It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a… - Northrop Frye

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

Education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him. It doesn't just train the mind: it's a social and moral development too.