The Guttenberg Project

The Guttenberg Project, if you press on this title it will take you to a website that has a LOT of ebooks on it. The article that we just read in 'Integrated Projects', has left a strong impression on me. This article was written in the early 1900's when people still had strong morals and values. It rang so full of truth to me that I would like to share it with you all. The article is 'The Majesty of Calmness', written by William George Jordan. Here are some quotes I liked from his article.

• "Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power, --ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis."


• "Calmness and haste are different. 'Haste has an ideal, a distinct aim to be realized by the quickest, direct methods."


• "Hurry never realizes that slow careful foundation work is the quickest in the end."


• "Educational institution of t0-day is a monumental institution dedicated to Hurry. ... They are given everything that the ambitious ignorance of the age can force into their minds; they are taught everything but the essentials, ---how to use your senses and how to think."


• Students are given a 'great mass of undigested facts' and thrown into 'knowledge prisons'.


• 'And they hurry children into a hundred textbooks, then ill-health, then into colleges, then into a diploma, then into life, ---with a dazed mind, untrained and unfitted for the real duties of living."


• "Hurry means the breakdown of the nerves. It is the royal road to nervous prostation."


• "But what to our eyes, may seem hopeless failure is often but the dawning of a greater success. It may contain in its debris the foundation material of mighty purpose, or the revelation of new and higher possibilities."