1. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. --Anon.
2. Learning is not the attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. --Abigail Adams
3. Education is the acquisition o f the art of the utilization of language. --Alfred North Whitehead
4. Wisdom is found on the desolate hillside, El-ahrairah, where none come to feed, and the stony bank where the rabbit scratches a hole in vain. --Richard Adams, Watership Down
5. Ubi Romani solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. --Tacitus (Where Romans create a wasteland, they call it peace.)
1. Oh my stars, there is an entire genre of quotes in this planner that are self-congratulatory. I can only say that I have grown up since then.
2. Yay, Abigail Adams! This is definitely still my philosophy.
3. Hmm...I don't agree, in that I don't think it is complete. The utilization of language is one piece of education, but there are other areas that education is necessary to learn how to use and build with (math, managing people, materials, the money system, art). So, good, but not complete.
4. One of the best books ever written. Absolutely amazing. I should reread that.
5. Part of the fascination with Rome is how their self-concept is similar to Americans' self-concept. A nation founded by immigrants, who found success through hard work and small farms, and who consider restraint and chutzpah to be the highest virtues while still worshiping the old world (for them, Greece) for its culture. The amazing thing here is not the sentiment, but that Tacitus wrote and published it. It's a far cry from Vergil's patriotic epic.
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