Quotes from David Brooks

I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I think the presidency is a bad way to measure the effective campaign finance, because in the presidency, there is so much publicity, there's so much money floating around.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.