* It is unfortunately no accident that it is always an uncle who appears in the active role, for the parents’ activity is mostly confined to appearing as marshal or prize-giver for good deeds on the monthly day of reckoning – both done with the exactitude and punctiliousness that befits a book-keeper’s conscience. So there are undeniably opportunities for uncles with talent.
* One can also oneself learn from children, from their amazing genius and, unlike certain self-important private tutors, leave them partly to it, and recall also the words of the twelve-year-old Christ: ‘Knew you not that I must be about my father’s business?’[…]
* This is inherent in the haste of our age, which basically misjudges every age because it thinks that one age exists only for the next.