#distractions

"Phones are distracting. The internet is distracting.The way he looked at you? He wasn't distracted. He was consumed."

"In those days a boy on the classical side officially did almost nothing but classics. I think this was wise; the greatest service we can to education today is to teach few subjects. No one has time to do more than a very few things well before he is twenty, and when we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."

"My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."