I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
“Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.”
“In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.”