Quotes by : Anthony M. Esolen

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential,....

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough....

How decisive for the Christian educator, or for any educator of good will, is the revelation that man....

You democratize heroism. Everybody is a hero, and simply for doing (and often not well at that) the ordinary....

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right....

We think that mercy is a sweeter and easier thing than justice, but it is not so; for justice takes us....

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers....

[Today's high schoolers are required to read] a couple of Shakespeare plays...the couple of Shakespeare....

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all,....

If we loved children, we would have a few. If we had them, we would want them as children, and would....