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Alfred Whitney Griswold
American
Educator
About the author
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#May
#Wrong
#Order
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#God
#Policy
#Law
#Land
#Computer
#Physics
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#Ideas
In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#History
#Ideas
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#Ideas
#Books
A Socrates in every classroom.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#Classroom
It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Alfred Whitney Griswold,
American
Educator
#Criticism