Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which read more

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. -B.B. King.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. -Anonymous teacher.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of read more

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological read more

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.