This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The dependence upon corporate advertising of the mass media – newspapers, magazines, radio and television – makes them editorially subservient, without in any way being prompted, to points of view known or thought to be favored by the big property owners… The willing subservience shows itself most generally, apart from specific acts of omission or commission, in an easy blandness on the part of the mass media toward serious social problems.
Advertising | Dependence | Problems | Property | Television | Thought | Thought |
If the teacher is ignorant, how can the student be expected to be any better?
The time and study, the genius, knowledge, and application requisite to qualify an eminent teacher of the sciences, are at least equal to what is necessary for the greatest practitioners in law and physic. But the usual reward of the eminent teacher bears no proportion to that of the lawyer or physician... The inequality is upon the whole, perhaps, rather advantageous than hurtful to the public. It may somewhat degrade the profession of a public teacher; but the cheapness of literary education is surely an advantage which greatly overbalances this trifling inconveniency.
Education | Genius | Inequality | Knowledge | Law | Public | Reward | Study | Time | Teacher |
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
A true teacher encourages students to find God within themselves, and does not foster clinging or dependence on the physical form... The only goal of a true teacher is the advancement of the students and the celebration of Truth. Selfish or personal motivations are absent.
Dependence | God | Truth | God | Teacher |
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence... He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.
Affliction | Charity | Faith | Humility | Patience | Reflection | Repentance | Parent | Teacher |
Creative activity described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Individual | Learning | Teacher |
Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Suffering is the essence of life, because it is the inevitable product of an unresolved tension between a living creature’s essential impulse to try to make itself into the centre of the Universe and its essential dependence on the rest of Creation and on the Absolute Reality.
Absolute | Dependence | Impulse | Inevitable | Life | Life | Reality | Rest | Suffering | Universe |
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Individual | Learning | Teacher |
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Creativity | Individual | Learning | Teacher |