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Longmei Ge learns about “The Pursuit of Happiness” at the University of Chicago.

Longmei Ge learns about “The Pursuit of Happiness” at the University of Chicago.

Jul 20, 2021 | News

Longmei Ge has been loving her first week attending the “Collegiate Writing: Awakening into Consciousness” course at the University of Chicago. According to Longmei, the class has been both challenging and interesting, with classmates encouraging each other to work hard.

Michelle Wang studies Autonomous Air Racing through the MIT Beaverworks Program.

Michelle Wang studies Autonomous Air Racing through the MIT Beaverworks Program.

Jul 20, 2021 | News

Michelle Wang has been busy learning about drone theory, math, and computer vision during her first two weeks of the Autonomous Air Racing program at MIT Beaverworks.

Jayla Ware studies Climate Change Resiliency at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Jayla Ware studies Climate Change Resiliency at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Jul 20, 2021 | News

Jayla Ware enjoyed a “hands-on, enriching learning experience” at the University of Florida Climate Change Resiliency Program.

Samuel Wang studies “Introduction to Pharmacology” at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Samuel Wang studies “Introduction to Pharmacology” at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

Jul 19, 2021 | News

Samuel Wang reports on his experiences while attending “Introduction to Pharmacology” at the University of North Carolina.

Alexander Brown studies “Art and Design” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Alexander Brown studies “Art and Design” at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Jul 12, 2021 | News

Alexander Brown is enjoying his Art and Design course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Alex is one of 25 students who are also attending the program which includes drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture classes.

Elaina Xiao attends the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies.

Elaina Xiao attends the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies.

Jun 30, 2021 | News

Elaina Xaio is enrolled in the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford’s Pre-Collegiate Studies program. During her first week, Elaina participated in Zoom sessions from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Carbondale Community School Library, followed by office hours with her instructor.

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Words of Wisdom

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“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

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

— Plutarch

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

— George Bernard Shaw

“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

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Edmund Burke

“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

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

— Aristotle

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

— Theodore Roosevelt, October 1915

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

— Aristotle

“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

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

— Rene Descartes

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

— George Santayana

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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