Whitman/education

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“Thou who hast slept all night upon the storm,
Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)