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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for August 2025:

Classic:
The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down.
— Aldous Huxley, introduction to Samuel Butler, Erewhon, 1934.

Direct:
Less harm is done by alleged goats among the sheep on university faculties, than by the search for goats and the rituals by which they are driven out.
— The Envy of Excellence, 2003.

Garden moment for August 2025:

Alongside our Niagara home runs what we call an avenue of hydrangeas. Here a constellation of three different kinds of hydrangea (peegee, mophead, and oakleaf) is being photobombed by a dinnerplate hibiscus (H. moscheutos).

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