Work of the Mind

The acts that are at once the means and ends of education, knowing, thinking, understanding, judging, are all committed in solitude. It is only in a mind that the work of the mind can be done.

—Richard Mitchell, The Graves of Academe

(Via Michael Leddy.)

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