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.
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
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