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
real philosophy men
Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.
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.
business judgement belief
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
friendship happiness teacher
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
summer school years
I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.
heart library university
The Library is the heart of the University.
reading opportunity thinking
If I had the opportunity to say a fine word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your lifework is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right.
happiness way secure
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
adversity history generations
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.
spiritual thinking finals
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
education desire fruit
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.
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.
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.