On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2013, at 7:01 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > - The object of education is not merely to draw out the powers of the > > individual mind: it is rather its right object to draw all minds to a > > proper adjustment to the physical and social world in which they are to > > have their life and their development: to enlighten, strengthen and make > > fit. (Woodrow Wilson) > > I don't think it was a good idea to quote a segregationist president of > Princeton, who discouraged black students from even applying for > admission, on > the merits of education "to draw all minds ... to enlighten, strengthen and > make [the social world] fit." Plunder a quote from someone else for your > next > response. > OK. Then how about this: - The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -- were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. Longfellow
