It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Orest Subtelny is a Canadian historian of Ukrainian descent. Born in Kraków, General Government in German-occupied Poland, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1973.
