The life of the mind
Aug. 14th, 2009 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonRandom quote of the day:
"These [books] are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
—Gilbert Highet, The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning
This has been widely quoted as "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." You can read an excerpt of the chapter in which it was coined here.
(Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jeffunk.)
You can read more about the art project this drawing came from here.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
"These [books] are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
—Gilbert Highet, The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning
This has been widely quoted as "These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves." You can read an excerpt of the chapter in which it was coined here.
(Thanks to
jeffunk.)
You can read more about the art project this drawing came from here.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.