Readings

2/10/2011

Although I have little personally to add to the blog today, I will share some savvy thoughts from my recent readings.

James A. Garfield wrote that, "a log with a student on one end and Mark Hopkins, his old teacher, on the other end was his ideal college."  I think Garfield's point was that there is no substitute for the interface between a student, a great teacher, and an superbly prepared lesson.

"Manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education."  Earnest T. Seton, a founding pioneer of the Boy Scouts

Certainly, manhood is an unstated goal of all-male academies such as Riverside.  I have not observed a school where the achievement of this goal is bettered engineered than at Riverside.