“Educators everywhere must seek new ways to promote the idea that learning is something a student does with books and materials, and a teacher who cares; that learning can happen in college and outside; and that a student's intellectual growth depends far less on geography (which college) than on what advantage he takes of the opportunities which surround him wherever he is.”

— Eugene S. Wilson

"What's Going On in Schools and Colleges", Kiplinger's Personal Finance, April 1961, p. 31 http://books.google.com/books?id=fwMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31
A portion of this is quoted earlier in "Education: Little Known" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,895088,00.html, Time, 5 December 1960
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