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Yoonseo Jung studies Pathways in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Yoonseo Jung studies Pathways in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Jun 26, 2023 | News

Yoonseo Jung (left) reports on her first week studying “Pathways in Economics” at the University of Chicago. Her first economics course, Yoonseo says she is enjoying “listening to lectures from real-time UChicago professors and other wonderful guest speakers.”

Abdul Hadi studies Biology and Its Modern Applications at the University of Chicago.

Abdul Hadi studies Biology and Its Modern Applications at the University of Chicago.

Jun 25, 2023 | News

Abdul Hadi reports on his first week at the University of Chicago where he is studying “Biology and Its Modern Applications.” He has been enjoying his lab work, attending social events, and making new friends.

The Garwin Family Foundation is proud to announce eleven student scholarship recipients for the summer 2023 program

The Garwin Family Foundation is proud to announce eleven student scholarship recipients for the summer 2023 program

Jun 23, 2023 | News

Eleven outstanding high school students from Carterville High School, Carbondale Community High School, Herrin High School, and the Illinois Math and Science Academy have earned merit-based scholarships from the Garwin Family Foundation (GFF) to attend highly selective enrichment programs in STEM and the Fine Arts this summer.

GFF Celebrates 2023 IMSA Graduates!

GFF Celebrates 2023 IMSA Graduates!

May 26, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

The Garwin Family Foundation honors our alumni scholarship program recipients—Lauren Fakhoury, Jason Qin, and Elaina Xiao—who have recently graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA).

GFF Student Scholarship Recipient Yoonseo Jung performs at Carnegie Hall!

GFF Student Scholarship Recipient Yoonseo Jung performs at Carnegie Hall!

Apr 14, 2023 | Where Are They Now? — 2023

As a participant in the American Protégé Piano and Strings Competition, Yoonseo Jung performed the “Un Sospiro” Etude by Franz Liszt at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Sunday, April 9, 2023.

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“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

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Plutarch

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Geraldine Brooks, March

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

— Frank McCourt

“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

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Aristotle

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci
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