"You can lade a man up to th'
university, but ye can't make him think."
--
Finley Peter Dunne
"ˇSí, Se Puede!"
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The Texas State Capitol
All Things Political
"In our time the destiny of man presents its
meanings in political terms."
-- Thomas Mann
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of
the USA.
-- gdg
the Academical Village*
of
Dr. Glenn David
Garrison,
Professor of Political Science
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"Teaching is not a
lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
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Herein please find Dr. Garrison's
American and Texas government course
information. Enter the site below.
Click on the items after the for
more information.
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American
Government I course
American
Government II course
American/Texas Politics & Links
Bonus
Opportunities
Final Exam
Schedule Fall 2008
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"A primary object. should be the education of our
youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can
be equally important? And what duty more pressing. than. communicating it to
those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
-George Washington
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-- Jacques Barzun
"Education is a progressive discovery of our
ignorance."
--
Will
Durant (1885-1981)
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those
who are equal in any respect are equal in all
respects;
because men are equally free, they claim
to be absolutely equal."
-- Aristotle
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"The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men."
-- Reinhold
Niebuhr
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"Man's capacity for justice
makes democracy possible,
but man's inclination to
injustice makes democracy necessary."
--
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Think of students with minds made darkly
rich
by cultures not their own,
and who can say —given the sweet contagion of a thought —
how far away
the tremors of opening minds may resonate?
-- Miller Williams
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"Citizenship is every person's
highest calling."
-- Walter H. Annenberg
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"Learned institutions ought to be favorite
objects with every free people.
They throw that light over the public mind
which
is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public
liberty."
-- James Madison
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