Compare the history of the novel to that of rock 'n' roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splint...ered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which... knowledge gives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring ...classes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw light over the public mind which is the best ...security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A knowledge of the Globe and its various inhabitants, however slight ... has a kindred effect with that of seeing them as travelle...rs, which never fails, in uncorrupted minds, to weaken local prejudices, and enlarge the sphere of benevolent feelings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried for...ward at the public expense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancemen...t and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutions ... are as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mut...ual and surest support?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements..., and to every Country its truest and most durable celebrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »