Each Of Us Needs An Adequate Biography:

Mediocrity Is No Answer To Violence. In Fact, It Probably Invites Violence. At Least The Mediocre And The Violent Appear Together As In The Old Western Movies - The Ruffian Outlaw Band Shooting Up Main Street And The Little White Church With The Little White Schoolteacher Wringing Her Hands. To Cool Violence You Need Rhythm, Humor, Tempering; You Need Dance And Rhetoric. Not Therapeutic Understanding.

As Plotinus Tells Us, We Elected The Body, The Parents, The Place, And The Circumstances That Suited The Soul And That, As The Myth Says, Belongs To Its Necessity.

I Think There Is Such A Thing As A Bad Seed That Comes To Flower In Certain People. The Danger With That Theory Is That We Begin To Look For Those "troublemakers" Early On And Try To Weed Them Out. That's Very Dangerous, Because It Could Work Against Kids Who Are Just Routine Troublemakers.

Teachers Today Can't Take To A Child.

Too Many People Have Been Analyzing Their Pasts, Their Childhoods, Their Memories, Their Parents, And Realizing That It Doesn't Do Anything-or That It Doesn't Do Enough.