"I am not willing to be drawn..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
I am not willing to be drawn further into the toils. I cannot accede to the acceptance of gifts upon terms which take the educational policy of the university out of the hands of the Trustees and Faculty and permit it to be determined by those who give money.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“You must act in your friends' interests whether it pleases them or not; the object of love is to serve, not to win.”
“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”
“The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.”
More on Education
“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,-Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.”
“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”
More on Autonomy
“To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.”
“I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always pulling at me, tugging at me, as if they wanted a piece of me. It was always, 'do this, do that,' and not just on the job but off, too. God, I've tried to stay intact, whole.”
“Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.”