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“It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.”

Should Running School Girl Talking Flower Periods Calling Conversation Office Picks Distance Dinner Sentences Sunday Sunday School Excursions

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

Wisdom School Understanding Loneliness Genius Solitude Conversation Mindfulness Single Being Single Feeling Lonely Loneliness And Solitude

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher.”

School Talking Teacher Students Conversation Intellectual

Author:William Glasser

“School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited.”

Should Children Able School Order Teach Study Teacher Plans Comfort Conversation Built Prison Convenient Merriment

Book:Tolstoy on Education

Source: Tolstoy on Education