We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries. – H. G. Wells

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Pound, “The Instructor: II,” Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of mens skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. – Lyndon B. Johnson