Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliot
Charles William Eliotwas an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history. He was a cousin of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth20 March 1834
CountryUnited States of America
Charles William Eliot quotes about
children fields facts
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
real philosophy men
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
heart progress fields
When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.
work college world
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
leadership successful attention
There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
mother gentleman acquisition
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
book reading library
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
hero industry
The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
inspirational action realms
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
lonely messengers and-love
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
helping-others men ties-of-love
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.
education book class
One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
education honor world
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
evil boredom spheres
Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.