Quotes by Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell

A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

Heart

Meditation

Running

A mind can be overthrown by words; that’s the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, ‘Delay should not be allowed to take place’ instead of ‘Hurry’? The user of the passive verb doesn’t want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL.

Brain

Mind

Writing

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Children

Clever

Writing

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Benefits

Important

Language

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Journey

Limits

Reason

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

Ignorance

Laughing

Special

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

America

Educational

School

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.

Pain

Teacher

Training

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

Mind

Technique

Use

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

Language

Masters

Slave

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Asking

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Children

Choices

Clever

Dog

Education

Educational

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Events

Exercise

Facts

Fellow Man

Heart

Ignorance

Important

Journey

Judging

Justice

Land

Language

Laughing

Limits

Long

Looks

Masters

Meditation

Men

Mind

Order

Pain

People

Reason

Running

School

Sex

Should Have

Silly

Simple

Slave

Society

Speak

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Strong

Taken

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Quotes by Richard Mitchell

Richard Mitchell

An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages.

Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend and a solace; it helps you now, and assures you of help in the future. Good education is a continual pain in the neck, and assures you always of more of the same.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave.

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