If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
Interpretation
Education and resources like libraries should be a collective responsibility for the benefit of everyone in the community.
Andrew Carnegie emphasizes the importance of communal support in maintaining educational institutions, including libraries, as essential resources for the well-being of society. He argues that just as schools are vital for community development, libraries also play a crucial role in providing access to knowledge and learning opportunities, making it necessary for the entire community to contribute to their upkeep.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for increased funding for public libraries.
Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.
Speculation is a parasite feeding upon values, creating none.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred me to a private, predominantly white school and I saw both sides of the world at a very young age.
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