The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way.
学校必须代表当下的生活——对孩子来说,这种生活与他在家庭、邻里或操场上所进行的生活一样真实和重要。
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.