“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.” MeanEndsUseDreamWould BeLeftNationsVisionYouthHigherOne DayMassMereChiefsManagersIndianAmerican DreamRhetoricPromotingScholarshipHigher EducationImplicitElitist Author:William A. Henry III
“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.” DifferentLeftWealthSimpleResultsPovertyYouthSonMastersHigherTasteResourcesActiveEducatedEducateModestFertileDiligentYour SonHigher Ground Book:Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.” FirstsHeartLeftHeavenGrowsHigherMy HeartSpringBirdFilledRoseCloudsDeeperEaglesFlewLarks Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces
“If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career.” IfsHas BeensEndsLeftCareersCasesWorstHigherBonesMusclesThroatLungsScenariosWorst Case ScenarioJavelin Author:Roman Sebrle
“The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.” LeftPoetHigherRefugeTowersIvoryIvory Tower Author:Gerard De Nerval
“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.” MenWorldHas BeensLeftAbilityModernMinutesPersonalityDevelopmentHigherMetsNormalAspectScientistPatientVanityObsessedEncountersEnterprisePortionsScholarAutonomyFragmentsExaggerationMorbidSufferersTechniciansPsychiatricHigher Learning Author:Richard M. Weaver