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"I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies."
"That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so."
"So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in."
"music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui."
"the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public."
"Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country"
"ours are the only farmers who can read Homer"
"besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other."
"what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics."
"life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the temper, chears our spirits, and promotes health."
"Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind"
"Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in my life ... But the old-fellows say we must read to gain knowledge; and gain knowledge to make us happy and be admired. Mere jargon! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No."
"The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in."
"I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man."
"the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them."
"in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses of lectures, and I hope you will have reason to be contended with his capacity & character."
"we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply."
"the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind"
"among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ... I think myself more indebted to my father for this, than for all the other luxuries his cares and affections have placed within my reach."
"Drawing ... is an innocent & engaging amusement, often useful, and a qualification not to be neglected in one who is to become a mother & an instructor."
