
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786
Source: From the Danube to the Yalu (1954), p. 175
Context: After I went to the Far East I witnessed this same concentration time after time in the schools the Koreans established for their officers and noncoms. The students would squat on their haunches for hours listening to an instructor explain something like the care and use of a light machine gun. They would focus their eyes on the instructor almost without blinking. Never once did a single student that I saw let his gaze wander. I even tested them. They knew who I was, and in addition the short-statured Oriental has a compulsion to look at a tall man. During the class sessions I witnessed I deliberately strolled behind the instructor, looking at the students. I thought certainly some of the Korean students would break their concentration on the instructor and sneak a glance at me. I didn't catch a one. I made it a practice to make this test often during visits to ROK training schools. Never once did I catch an eye looking my way. I have never in my life been so impressed with the intensity of military students.
Part II, p. 64.
The Autobiography (1818)
Speech at UCLA, May 9, 2002.
Attributed
Variant: Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Source: Thirst
Source: Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
“A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty”
"A Loyalty Oath for Scholars," The American Scholar (Summer 1951)
Context: A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.
My consolation was, that "I should be soon as happy here as I was in Gottingen" in the choice of my friends.
My Life and Confessions, for Philippine, 1786