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after Mr. Jefferson's Academical Village The University of Virginia
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You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think."
 --  Finley Peter Dunne

 
  Dr. David Garrison
                             
Professor  of Political Science
"Teaching is not a lost art,  but the regard for it is a lost tradition."  -- Jacque Barzun

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the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
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"A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce
or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both."

 -- Letter from James Madison to W. T.  Barry  (Aug. 4, 1822)
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