We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Interpretation
Education should be inclusive and based solely on merit and purpose, irrespective of race, creed, or sex.
Abraham Flexner emphasizes that the essence of America's noblest spirit lies in its commitment to higher learning, which should be free from discrimination based on race, creed, or sex. He advocates for an educational environment that prioritizes the goals of knowledge and personal development over arbitrary social distinctions.
In practice
In a graduation speech to promote inclusivity in education.
At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
Reading is an exercise for learning how to write and vice versa. I have read myself into being a Christian, but I have also written myself into being a Christian.
I was not a good student. I did not spend much _x000D_ time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.
I'm read in the Caribbean with justice, with fairness. What I expect it to do is to encourage articulacy in the young.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
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