You can live from the inside, or you can live from the outside.
You can think from the inside, or you can think from the outside.
You can read from the inside, or you can read from the outside.
You can teach from the inside – but only if you live, think, and read from the inside.
To live, think, and read from the inside you must enter into the thing you live with, the thought you are thinking about, the text you are reading.
To live, think, and read from the outside, you only need to look at it.
Most living, thinking, reading, and teaching are done from the outside.
The greatness of the great teacher is the ability to get inside and lead his students there.
Things can only be loved on the inside, where they cannot be measured.
Things can only be measured on the outside, where they cannot be known.
By living on the outside, we have turned education and our civilization upside down.
