Joshua Kendall quotes

Joshua Kendall quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound).”
-- Joshua Kendall

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“Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition”
“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“A spiritual teaching is a finger pointing toward Reality; it is not Reality itself. To be in a true and mature relationship with a spiritual teaching requires you to apply it, not simply believe in it.”
“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
“When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.”
“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press
“I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.”
“A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015
“It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lecturesâ€”but far and wide.”
“You won't catch me giving clear lectures.”

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