> “Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.” –Ray Bradbuy, to The New York Times. ^h27541513 > I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. ^h27551676 > [My mother] said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. ^h27551678 > don’t know what intelligence is. But this I do know, both from life and from literature: whenever you reduce human life to two plus two equals four, the human element within the human animal says, “I don’t give a damn.” ^h27551680 > What is wrong is a neglect of principle; and the principle is that, without a gentle contempt for education, no gentleman’s education is complete.” –G.K. Chesterson in The Illustrated London News, 1930 ^h27551694 > What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” –Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 1850 ^h27551698 > Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family, who attended Universities, were cured of long ago.” –Neil Gaiman, in his commencement address to the University of the Arts class of 2012 ^h27551704