Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

- Freeman Tilden

I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to ris…

- Freeman Tilden

An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustra…

- Freeman Tilden

The chief aim of Interpretation is not instruction, but provocation.

- Freeman Tilden