Carl Borgmann

North Carolina · connected1905–1998

American educator and chemical engineer (1905–1998)

Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

chemical engineer, scientist, academic administrator, university teacher

Quotations with a citation

Basic to a free society is the belief in a golden rule. Just as you feel you have the right to your opinion, you must feel that everyone else, in turn has a right to his.

If any one thread runs through the UVM story, it is the continual belief that higher education should be pre-occupied with the progress of mankind.

Education is, however, an extremely interesting and complex institution provided because society has discovered that, if it is to preserve itself and advance, it must spare the time and the people necessary to provide our young people with an understanding of their heritage. But education doesn't take place within institutions. It takes place only within individuals. It is something we cannot buy. It is something that records in the registrar's office do not measure.

We can all join that most worthwhile of all wars—the fight for tolerance, the fight for wisdom, the fight for freedom. Above all else, continue to develop your tastes—material and spiritual—so that you may learn to choose the best values from life's many alternatives.