A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivated a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Since his time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“This education startled even a man who had dabbled in fifty educations all over the world; for, if he were obliged to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing… — Henry Adams Copy Share
History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated. — Henry Adams Copy Share
The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were… — Henry Adams Copy Share
![“Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/242/henry-adams-1542_autobiography_since-rousseau-s-time-and-largely-thanks_1407086.jpg)
