I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.

Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

Then, again, there are three things which every artificer must possess if he is to effect anything,—nature, education, practice. Nature is to be judged by capacity, education by knowledge, practice by its fruit.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

Beware the man of a single book.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Farewell Pony: Our little friend, the Pony, is to run no more ... Thou wert the pioneer of a continent in the rapid transmission of intelligence between its peoples, and have dragged in your train the lightning itself, which, in good time, will be followed by steam communication by rail. Rest upon your honors ... Rest then, in peace; for thou hast run thy race, thou hast followed thy course, thou hast done the work that was given thee to do. - Sacramento Daily Bee, October 26,1861

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

Only as they cease to seek anything by themselves and only as they take the position of the teachable shall they be taught by the Spirit truth which they are able to digest.

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein