"Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into t..."
- Louis B. Wright
"Annie's message is timeless, her shining spirit and healing gift from the Spiritual Universe will capture your heart. She was born with birth defects in a time when special children and their mothers ..."
- Deborah A.Bowman
"The mysterious Enoch Root meets 8-year-old Benjamin Franklin, Boston, 1713: "Do I look like a schoolmaster to you?" "No, but you talk like one." "You know something of schoolmasters, do you?""Yes, sir..."
- Neal Stephenson
"New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were ..."
- Edward Pearson Pressey
"We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business."
"….In time, the Europeans brought in pigs and horses, both of which were allowed to run wild and multiply. Pigs in the wild soon became aggressive feral boars with tusks, eating everything in sight. Co..."
- Hank Bracker
"More than any other colonial founder, Oglethorpe made himself one of the people, promoting collective effort."
- Nancy Isenberg