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Western Kentucky UniversityTopSCHOLAR®WKU Archives Records WKU Archives7-6-1939UA3/2/4 Every Child Has PotentialitiesPaul GarrettFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_recordsPart of the Higher Education Administration Commons, Mass Communication Commons, andthe Speech and Rhetorical Studies CommonsThis Transcription is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in WKU Archives Records by anauthorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact topscholar@wku.edu.JulJ 8 , 1939 Every child has potentialities for Tihic~ eternity is not too lons--this is what makes teachinG so excitin.:; . It in good to attend f;OOd schools but better to have 1·ea.lly educated ones self without ~~ese advanta~~s than to have had the advnntRges nnd missed the opportunities . Viela.nchol y vi:iits the empty mind !llld settlos there . of inter sting and excitinti ideas ca.."Ulot be The universe is spectacular und it is a. free show. The mind full by depression There .11.ust be some good in human beings sinoe dogs like them so much . St. John Evinn " The typical farcical fact about worship of the State is that what is called the State is only a gang of pol i tical thugs who have seized authority." One meets in England heroic fathers and nothers who lost their men in the oror ld ,ar . • • ~ wo:nan painter and writer wl- ose husband died and left her bro baby boys . Just after they had graduated from Cambr idge , the ,ar came . They enlisted and were kil led. Only her interest in 1 i''e of -~1:9 __ '1lind enabl ed her to onrry on. To say yout~ is happier than mturity is like sayin~ the view fro~ the bottc:n of the tower is better than that that from the top . The best insurance a.co.ins old age and disability is a.n interesting mi Tne art of living can be cultivated . The more we stor e our minds with interestin0 thouchts the richer rre are , and these riches remain- -they cannot be l ost. The business of the teacher is not to su_•pl y infor:iatior. , it is to raise a thirst. If a .man is int,,r -:;ted onl:,, .:.n ;.is business then so far as the "7or ld of music and art and science and fort.ign politics are concerned he is dead; but if in additio~ to his business , he also irt rested in music or pl aying f_;runes or in foreicn politi cs he is just that ~uch cor e alive . T. R. was interested in everything from a bumble bee to a battle ship. 

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