• We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

    Rabindranath Tagore: We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.
    Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA