A Diploma is a piece of paper that proves patience more than it shows intelligence.

A Diploma is now the high school diploma for an office job.

A Diploma is the most expensive office decoration most people will ever buy.

A Diploma is just a fancy receipt

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

The Institution is necessary to the nation — Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

The Institution is what springs up where there is a lull of truth, just as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind.

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley, Abolition, of Clarkson.

Logos is the greek word for ‘gathering’, which is a word rife in significance — it is not some mere action that is done for its own sake – people do not collect fruit or wheat together simply to make a heap. Rather, the making, storing, using and celebrating of bread and wine is central to the culture’s whole existence.

Logos is related to the verb legein, meaning both to ‘say’ and ‘to gather’, as in a harvest. In fact the sense of gathering is ‘just as early’ and even more originary.

Logos is not just the same as the Latin ‘ratio’ or the modern ‘language’ by which it has been so often translated. To translate thus is merely to erect a mirror in which we will see only ourselves and our familiar terms of thought.

The Logos is a voice heard in the head. It is the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.