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  .There is a great deal of talk today about psychologic methods of teaching, of putting your ideas "over," and "selling" them to the public. I have not the time and energy to findout how much real value there is in all this talk.But I am profoundly convinced that there is no royal road up therocky and dangerous steep of philosophy-not even for King Demos. Students must do the climbing themselves and suffer scratches or worse injuries in the process. The only help that a teacher can offer is to follow the Socratic method and convince his students that they must climb the Hill of Vision or else sink in the mire of conventional error. .

(A Tribute to Professor Morris Raphael Cohen:Teacher & Philosopher. New York: Grossman, 1928, pp. 72-73.)

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Teaching had always seemed to me so much more divine an occupation than college administration that I could never understand why in American universities it is considered a promotion when a teacher becomes a college dean or president.

(M.R. Cohen, A Dreamer’s Journey, Boston: Beacon Press, 1949, p. 150.)

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