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«Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. [During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos]»
Author: William Scott
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briefing, briefings, missile, officials, silo, silos, The Military
«You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.»
Author: William Scott
«A dinner lubricates business»
«The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about.»
Author: William Scott
«When I was an undergraduate at Princeton, freshman year, first term, I ended up in the course on Plato's Republic. That book just captivated me - not because of the answers, and the answers can be somewhat unsatisfying, but because of the questions, the way you went at it, the methods, the kinds of questions you could ask, the different answers you could get. That's why I'm still fascinated by that book.»
Author: William Scott
«I feel I can't teach you anything, what I can do is organize some material that may seem wildly complex when you first take a look at it. I've been working at it for such a long time I can at least organize it. So you can go home and teach yourself how to get control of it... I could throw an act, I can tell jokes and try to be stimulating, I can organize the books. If you don't want to do it, I can't do anything about it.»
Author: William Scott
«The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.»
Author: William Scott
«There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.»
Author: William Scott
«We all teach students a massive body of material to get some sort of mastery of it, pass a judgement, and defend it.»
Author: William Scott
«The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.»
Author: William Scott
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