Lay Morals, and other papers, is a classic philosophy essay/short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between...
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