Favorite Quotes

• "A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension."  Oliver Wendell Holmes

• "He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot, is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave."  Lord Byron

• "The vital habits of democracy:  the ability to follow an argument, grasp the point of view of another; expand the boundaries of understanding, debate the alternative purposes that might be pursued."  John Dewey

• "Tell me and I forget.  Teach me and I remember.  Involve me and I learn."  Benjamin Franklin

• "Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental."  W. E. B. DuBois

• "Are you willing to sign your name to what you have written?  To present yourself in public--whether it matters to anyone else or not--as such a person?"  Richard A. Lanham

• "Writing, properly pursued, does not make you better.  It makes you more alive."  Richard A. Lanham

• "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."  Samuel Johnson

• "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."  Malcolm Forbes