One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Unless a group of workers know their work is under surveillance, that they are being rated as fairly as human beings, with the fallibility… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
