Shakespeare References in The Teachers' Book Of Wisdom

The Teachers' Book Of Wisdom, a book of quotations compiled and edited by Criswell Freeman, contains a few Shakespeare references (no surprise there). The first is a reference to Hamlet, coming in a quotation from A. Whitney Griswold: "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals" (p. 69). This is a strange quotation, as we know that playwrights often worked together. And has A. Whitney Griswold never seen a film? The next references comes in the introduction to a chapter: "Pupils are advised to contemplate the words of Shakespeare's Cassius, who admitted, 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...'" (p. 103). The introduction to the next chapter likewise contains a reference to Shakespeare: "If classroom discipline were solely dependent upon subject matter, teachers everywhere could quiet their students with a few verses from Shakespeare" (p. 111). Actually, it contains a second mention of Shakespeare: "The ideas contained in this chapter will not resolve all classroom difficulties, but they will help. And, if all else fails, try Shakespeare" (p. 111). The final reference comes in a quotation from Laurence Olivier: "I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman" (p. 143). 

This book was published in 1998.