“Evil” is first and foremost a religious notion. It means whatever a religion dislikes. - A. C. Grayling

Ideas are the cogs of history—and too often the barricades that stand in its way.

Aristotle’s thought is that to live well and flourishingly, a person needs to be educated—which means: informed, and able to think. He is of course right.

Part of the problem facing teaching in the contemporary world is that its status as a profession has been undermined by the contemptible view that only what makes money is admirable.