Quotations
A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
--Bernard Iddings Bell, chaplain, University of Chicago
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
-- Malcolm X
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without
cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
-- Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the
kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
-- Henry Steele Commager (Historian)
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more
clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they
are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," Walden, 96
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block
when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
-- Henry David Thoreau, 19 February 1854, Journal VI: 130
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein