Shady Side Academy

Famous quotes containing the words shady, side and/or academy:

“It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free country a dianoetic academy, or seminary for free-thinkers, provided with retired chambers, and galleries, and shady walks and groves, where, after seven years spent in silence and meditation, a man might commence a genuine free-thinker, and from that time forward, have license to think what he pleased, and a badge to distinguish him from counterfeits.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)