Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form … - Jacques Barzun

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw.

He never invested his whole moral capital in a man, a book, or a cause, but treasured up wisdom wherever it could be picked up, always with scrupulous acknowledgment … His eclecticism saving him from the cycle of hope-disillusion-despair, his highest effectiveness was as a skirmisher in the daily battle for light and justice, as a critic of new doctrine and a refurbisher of old, as a voice of warning and encouragement. That his action has not been in vain, we can measure by how little Shaw's iconoclasm stirs our blood; we no longer remember what he destroyed that was blocking our view.