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Margaret Davis attends the Rising Star Pre-College Program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Margaret Davis attends the Rising Star Pre-College Program at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Jul 13, 2026 | News

On her first day, Margaret learned about how things work at SCAD, the bus system for students, and information on the historical buildings at campus. Her first class was an introduction to architecture, followed by an assignment.

Trennis Hudson, Jr. studies Biophysics at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Trennis Hudson, Jr. studies Biophysics at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.

Jul 13, 2026 | News

Trennis reports that during his first week at MMSS, the class focused on core physics concepts before moving on to more complex material.

Thirteen Southern Illinois High School Students  Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships  for Summer 2026 Enrichment Opportunities

Thirteen Southern Illinois High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for Summer 2026 Enrichment Opportunities

Jul 7, 2026 | News

This group of students is a tribute to Carbondale Community High School (CCHS) and Carterville High School (CHS), which provide these students with excellent academic structure and support close to home.

GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

Oct 16, 2025 | News, Where Are They Now? — 2025

Evan says that after settling in, he is “walking the streets like an official, very busy New Yorker.”

Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.

Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.

Sep 7, 2025 | News

“The first time I heard the instructors, it seemed like their playing touched me very deeply. I was engaged and intrigued by their playing, I was inspired,” Liam says.

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  • Trennis Hudson, Jr. studies Biophysics at the Michigan Math and Science Scholars Program.
  • Thirteen Southern Illinois High School Students Earn Garwin Family Foundation Scholarships for Summer 2026 Enrichment Opportunities
  • GFF Alumnus Evan Wiggs Studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.
  • Liam Batteau attends a summer immersion jazz workshop at Stanford University.
  • Mollie Mandell studies “Biology and Its Modern Applications” at the University of Chicago Summer Immersion Program.
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Marcus Aurelius

“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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Aristotle

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

— Winston Churchill

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Aristotle

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Frank McCourt

“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

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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