Education

• Central Texas College
• Norwich Free Academy

Favorite saying

• ""Prepare for war, pray for peace and if necessary, fight for it, if you don't fight for it, keep your mouth shut unless you are saying thank-you." "Freedom of speech, yes, and freedom from speech." "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." "To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority. " "A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue." "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home." "Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." Robert Heinlein "When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive." Robert Heinlein "What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary." "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." "A good merchant has neither money nor goods." "By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.""