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.
I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.
Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.
In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
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