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  focusEDU - A higher education consulting group focusing on function, process, leadership, instruction, and technology.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions; to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
(Mark Twain)

Every hour make up thy mind sturdily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with scrupulous and unaffected dignity and love of thy kind and independence and justice; and to give thyself rest from all other impressions
- Meditations, II-5
(Marcus Aurelius)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)

And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'
(Vincent van Gogh)

Remember that everything is but what we think it.
- Meditations, II-15
(Marcus Aurelius)

I never let schooling interfere with my education.
(Mark Twain)

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
( Lao-Tzu)

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
(Ovid)

He who has never hoped can never despair.
(George Bernard Shaw)

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a manner of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Put all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET."
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
(Mark Twain)

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
(Epictetus)

If you have a lemon, make lemonade,
(Howard Gossage)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
(Mark Twain)

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
(Aesop)

Wisdom begins in wonder.
(Socrates)


  B. F. Skinner Foundation - Site dedicated to publishing significant literary and scientific works on the analysis of behavior.
  CampusWorks - An information technology consulting service for higher education.
  EDUCAUSE - A nonprofit association dedicated to shaping and enabling transformation change in higher education
  IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit, technical professional association
  Information Architecture and Process Innovation Project, defining an enterprise-wide information architecture
  IMS Project - is developing and promoting open specifications for facilitating online distributed learning activities
  ISO - The International Organization for Standardization is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies
  MERLOT - A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education
  Notes on Christopher Alexander - A page dedicated to sharing information about Christopher Alexander's varied contributions
  Project Gutenberg - Original free electronic text center
  The CERT® Coordination Center - CERT/CC is a center of Internet security expertise
  The Classical Archives - A wide range of classical midi and wav files, most available free
  The eText Center - U of Virginia collection of e-texts and images
  The Internet Classics Archive - An on-line repository of classical texts hosted by MIT
  The Official US Time - A public service provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  The Perseus Digital Library - A digital library embracing a wide range of source materials
  The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - A repository of Van Gogh's letters and works
  Twain Quotes - Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, & Related Resources
  WQED - Home page for WQED-FM Classical Radio
   
   
   
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