All In All, Vermont Is A Jewel

Men And Women Should Own The World As A Mutual Possession.

Somehow I Had Learned From Thoreau, Who Doubtless Learned It From Confucius, That If A Man Comes To Do His Own Good For You, Then Must You Flee That Man And Save Yourself

No Longer Can We Afford To Stuff The Brains Of The Young With Facts. The Time Is Too Short, The Necessity For Results Too Pressing. The New Education Must Be Based On The Elimination Of Facts Except As They Illustrate Principles. How To Use Facts, Not How To Accumulate Them, Is The Purpose Of True Education.

I Am Always Glad When Any Of My Books Can Be Put Into An Inexpensive Edition, Because I Like To Think That Any People Who Might Wish To Read Them Can Do So. Surely Books Ought To Be Within Reach Of Everybody.

People Don't Care To Read What They Already Think Or What Any People Think - They Know All That Well Enough. They Want To Know What They Ought To Think.