rogerneilson’s Submitted Quotes

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable. This form of stupidity is confined to no community, to no nation; it is universal. The fact is the human race is not only slow about borrowing valuable ideas it sometimes persists in not borrowing them at all.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

Reporter: Why do you lead from the front Gen. Patton?
George Patton: Have you ever tried to push string?

A 10 year old can access more information through his mobile device than our government could 50 years ago.

This scaremongering finds a ready echo in mainstream culture. From the tabloids to Waterloo Road to the bestselling fiction of Sebastian Faulks and Zoë Heller, local schools are too frequently portrayed as out-of-control hell holes, sustained by a jaded and self-interested teaching profession and a complacent liberal middle class.