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
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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.
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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.
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Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
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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.
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world
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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.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
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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.
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One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long.
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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.
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All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
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Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.