10 Monday Feb 2020
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“I have always been an advocate for fighting when assailed”
Dolley Madison wrote these words to her cousin Edward Coles in a May 1813 letter. A Quaker, Dolley, obviously and surprisingly, was not one to back down from a fight.
Her words seem particularly appropriate this afternoon. We were assailed. We did not fight. And we lost. Lost everything, or nearly so.
13 Monday Feb 2012
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Education is the drawing out of the Soul~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! ~Derek Bok
Intelligence plus character—that is the true goal of education. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.~ Dean William Ralph Inge
To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.~Theodore Roosevelt
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