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WRITINGS AND TEACHINGS

KENNETH WESTHUES
Professor Emeritus
University of Waterloo, Canada

Updated with quotes for October 2026:

Classic:
You read your history and you'll see that from time to time people in every country have seemed to lose their good sense, got hysterical, and got off the beam. . . . I don't know what gets into people.
— U.S. President Harry Truman, in M. Miller, Plain Speaking (Berkley Medallion 1974, p. 447).

Direct:
. . . the panic or hysteria that prevents people from thinking and seeing straight.
— "The Waterloo Strategy for Prevention of Mobbing," 2006.

Garden moment for October 2026:

The annuals at the mosaiculture of Niagara Parks are at their best in early autumn, just before cold and frost end their season. Here they bloom at the base of 20-foot monarch butterfly composed of thousands of coloured plants.

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