Jules Henry Quotes

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• Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of…
• I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of…
• Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it
• Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the…
• My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons…
• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the…
• The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a…
• School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural…
• The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to…
• The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that…
• If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents…

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