"To all of which is added a..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.
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“I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.”
“An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.”
“My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.”
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“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
“There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education.”
“Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.”
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“My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities.”
“All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent.”
“Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.”