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Gabriela Benyas Details Her Music Immersion at the Lamont Summer Music Academy

Gabriela Benyas Details Her Music Immersion at the Lamont Summer Music Academy

Aug 8, 2017 | News

Violinist Gabriela Benyas experienced a summer of intensive music instruction and performance through the Garwin Family Foundation’s Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts, Sciences, and Math. Her first enrichment program was the Lamont Summer...
Ian Kinsel Shares His Structural Engineering Experience in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Ian Kinsel Shares His Structural Engineering Experience in the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes

Aug 3, 2017 | News

Ian Kinsel spent three weeks engaged in the hands-on application of physics concepts during the structural engineering course at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Institutes. In his report, Ian explains the effective academic instruction, which combined both classroom and...
Peter Huh Reports on His Yong In University Taikwando Training Immersion

Peter Huh Reports on His Yong In University Taikwando Training Immersion

Jul 30, 2017 | News

Peter Huh took advantage of a unique opportunity to advance his skills in the martial art of Taekwondo by training at Yong In University alongside members of the South Korean Taekwondo Olympic Team. In his report, Peter shares how this immersion with elite athletes in...
Five Carbondale Community High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for 2017 Summer Enrichment Opportunities

Five Carbondale Community High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for 2017 Summer Enrichment Opportunities

Apr 23, 2017 | News

The 2017 scholarship winners for the Garwin Family Foundation’s Carbondale Community High School (CCHS) Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students in the Arts, Sciences, and Math are (left to right): Ian Kinsel, CCHS sophomore; Jaden Lucas, CCHS junior; Zeyad...
CCHS Sponsorship Program: 2016

CCHS Sponsorship Program: 2016

Sep 22, 2016 | News

The 2016 scholarship winners of the Garwin Family Foundation’s CCHS Student Sponsorship Program for Talented Students

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“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“All the resources we need are in the mind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

“To know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know a man’s mind.”

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their
opinions, they cease to be mind.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”

— Frank McCourt

“The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“Nothing is at last sacred but the quality of your own mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— Rene Descartes

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

— W. Clement Stone

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

— Marcus Aurelius
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