Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Samuel B. Gould
American Visionary Educator, President of Antioch College and State University of New York, known for promoting access to education through non-traditional means such as educational television, college teacher-mentor systems, and universities without walls
"Somewhere among the youth of today are minds capable of discovering ways to world peace, ways to deeper and more fulfilling lives, ways to new appreciations of beauty in art or literature or music, just as there have been minds capable of splitting the atom. Ours is the task of breaking through the thought barrier which keeps our young people from realizing their creative potentiality."