Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. - M. H. Abrams

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that.

All students are capable of growth. Some of them seem to be very slow to begin with and it’s probably not their fault, nor do I think it’s a matter of genetics. It’s a matter of what has happened in their lives before. They are all capable of growing, but they will not grow unless you interest them, captivate them in some way, and then make them reach out. Then they will finally enjoy reaching out.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.