3 Quotes by Tracy Lee Simmons

The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit.

Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative – or preservative – one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.