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In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding
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John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
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He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
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The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
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It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
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If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
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There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
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We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
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If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
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Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
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As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
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As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
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