Hmm, one of the best little quotes I've read in a while comes from the 1916 valedictorian speech of the grandfather of my company's co-CEOs.
Quote:
Education can not be carried on exclusively in the study and class room. Every meadow and every woodland is a college and every city block is filled with teachers. Do you know how the stream flows, how the kingfisher poises above it, how the trout swims in it, how the fern uncurls along its banks? Do you know the song of the birds, the voices of the forests and the sea?
...Beyond the world of outward perception, there is another world of inward vision and the key to it is imagination; to see things as they were or as they will be in the ending, to make the absent present, to rebuild the past out of fragments of of carven stone and to enter into the lives of all [can't read this word] and conditions of men. Imagination is the medium of all human sympathy..
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