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> [A young professor I watched in action at one of our large eastern colleges used to stand with his back to the class and mumble explanations of blackboard problems. He was "let out" at the end of two years because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/a-young-professor-i-watched-in-action-at-one-of-our-large-eastern/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

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## More by Mary Barnett Gilson

> [The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/the-higher-one-climbs-the-lonelier-one-is/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/unless-a-group-of-workers-know-their-work-is-under-surveillance-that/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/education-fails-in-so-far-as-it-does-not-stir-in-students-a-sharp/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/shopping-seemed-to-take-an-entirely-too-important-place-in-women-s/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/men-s-minds-must-be-free-and-that-means-the-minds-of-all-not-the/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/the-economic-dependence-of-woman-and-her-apparently-indestructible/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/i-believe-that-all-women-of-working-ages-and-physical-capacity/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/i-complacently-accepted-the-social-order-in-which-i-was-brought-up-i/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/a-worker-was-seldom-so-much-annoyed-by-what-he-got-as-by-what-he-got/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/during-the-first-world-war-women-in-the-united-states-had-a-chance-to/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/every-experience-in-life-enriches-one-s-background-and-should-teach/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/until-both-employers-and-workers-groups-assume-responsibility-for/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/the-new-supplants-the-old-yet-men-s-minds-are-stuffed-with-outworn/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/probably-nothing-in-the-experience-of-the-rank-and-file-of-workers/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

> [One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-barnett-gilson/one-of-the-baffling-things-about-life-is-that-the-purposes-of/)

[Mary Barnett Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-barnett-gilson/)

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