Teaching and the Spirit of Research

Here is a discourse about learning by John Livingston Lowes, an American scholar who applied the spirit of adventure and inquiry to a teaching career of more than fifty years. Mr. Lowes, who died in 1945, insisted that learning is not dull, that it is only learned men who make it so: “It is salutary to remember that the dullest, most utterly benumbing teachers may be, and sometimes are, the most erudite.”