Students Today

"Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce, but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules.” - Marshall McLuhan 1967



The inventor of the system deserves to be ranked among the best contributors to learning and science, if not the greatest benefactors of mankind.” - Josiah F. Bumstead 1841 ...on the benefits of the chalkboard