"The theory of books is noble. The scholar of the first age received into him the world around; brooded thereon; gave it the new arrangement of his own mind, and uttered it again. It came into him, life; it went out of him, truth. It came to him, short-lived actions; it went out from him, immortal thoughts. It came to him, business; it went from him, poetry. It was dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in proportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it sing." (pp. 70-71)
- The American scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson (I feel so lazy to cite it. But I read it in Handbook of Research on Teacher Education: Enduring Questions in Changing Contexts (2008). 3rd Edition)
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