A Good Teacher Feels His Way, Looking

It Is Hard To Grow Up In A Society In Which One's Important Problems Are Treated As Nonexistent. It Is Impossible To Belong To It, It Is Hard To Fight To Change It.

In A Milieu Of Resignation, Where The Young Men Think Of Society As A Closed Room In Which There Are No Values But The Rejected Rat Race, ... It Is Extremely Hard To Aim At Objective Truth Or World Culture. One's Own Products Are Likely To Be Personal Or Parochial.

Low Pay Generally Means Harder Work Under Worse Conditions.

Naturally, Grown-up Citizens Are Concerned About The Beatniks And Delinquents. ... The Question Is Why The Grownups Do Not, More Soberly, Draw The Same Conclusions As The Youth. Or, Since No Doubt Many People Are Quite Clear About The Connection That The Structure Of Society That Has Becoming Increasingly Dominant In Our Country Is Disastrous To The Growth Of Excellence And Manliness, Why Don't More People Speak Up And Say So?

We Define Boredom As The Pain A Person Feels When He's Doing Nothing Or Something Irrelevant, Instead Of Something He Wants To Do But Won't, Can't, Or Doesn't Dare. Boredom Is Acute When He Knows The Other Thing And Inhibits His Action, E.g., Out Of Politeness, Embarrassment, Fear Of Punishment Or Shame. Boredom Is Chronic If He Has Repressed The Thought Of It And No Longer Is Aware Of It. A Large Part Of Stupidity Is Just The Chronic Boredom, For A Person Can't Learn, Or Be Intelligent About, What He's Not Interested In, When His Repressed Thoughts Are Elsewhere.