"Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in……" — Joel Henry Hildebrand
"Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not be adjusted to it, to be willing to stand alone, if necessary, for what is right and true."
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Joel Henry Hildebrand
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12 Quotes by Joel Henry Hildebrand
Joel Henry Hildebrand has 12 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon…
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The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing…
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their…
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[I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There…
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The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. ... Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to…
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[About the demand of the Board of Regents of the University of California that professors sign non-Communist loyalty oaths or…
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[When questioned on his longevity] First of all, I selected my ancestors very wisely. ... They were long-lived, healthy people.…
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The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds…
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Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything…
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The best person able to appraise promise as a mathematician is a gifted teacher, and not a professional tester.
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That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define…
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