This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
How freely we live life depends both on our political system and on our vigilance in defending its liberties. How long we live depends both on our genes and on the quality of our health care. How well we live ~ that is, how thoughtfully, how nobly, how virtuously, how joyously, how lovingly - depends both on our philosophy and on the way we apply it to all else. The examined life is a better life.
Better | Care | Health | Life | Life | Philosophy | System | Vigilance |
The educational system will always be applied toward serving the role of cultural transmission and preserving the status quo.
W. W. Sawyer, fully Walter Warwick Sawyer
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
Imagination | Words |
Abd-el-Kader or Abdul Qadir NULL
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
Edward Thorndike, fully Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.