I hope that you have re-read the Constitution of the United States in these past few weeks. Like the Bible, it ought to be read again and again.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of regularly revisiting foundational documents like the Constitution to understand their significance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt compares the Constitution of the United States to the Bible, suggesting that both documents contain essential principles that citizens should revisit frequently for guidance and understanding. By encouraging re-reading these texts, Roosevelt highlights the necessity of engaging with the foundational ideas of democracy and justice, asserting that such knowledge is vital for informed citizenship and civic duty.
In practice
A professor might use this quote in a lecture about the importance of constitutional literacy among students.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.
Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.
What is learned on the athletic field is not forgotten, nor are the lessons of character that are forged there ever lost. Consider the contributions in the field of public life, business, law, medicine, and the military of those who actively participated in athletics.
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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