User:MNmagistra

I am a history professor in Minnesota, USA (with a high-school love of Latin, hence the username). Although I dabbled in minor edits on Wikipedia years ago, this is a new account with which I hope to make a more sustained contribution. I also occasionally supervise university students on Wikipedia projects.

   THIS  IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA  One gateway to the wide garden

of knowledge, where lies

The deep rock of our past,

in which we must delve

the well of our future,

The clear water we must leave untainted

for those who come after us,

The fertile earth, in which

truth may grow in bright places,

tended by many hands,

And the broad fall of sunshine,

warming our first steps toward knowing

how much we do not know.

 Catherine Munro

inspired by This is a printing office,

by Beatrice Warde

Credit: the boxed poem is from the userpage of Catherine Munro.