Acquisition Quote by Anna Seward

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“Education, human education, is the leading out and lifting up of the soul into the ripe, full enjoyment of all its powes potential. To…

— Orson F. Whitney

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of written communication.…

— Daniel Keyes

“He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself, hesitating between…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Institutions of higher education in the United Statesare products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are…

— Yolanda Moses

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject…

— H. L. Mencken

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of…

— William Ellery Channing

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

— Harriet Martineau

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case…

— Daniel Keyes