Harvey Cushing
Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushingwas an American neurosurgeon. A pioneer of brain surgery, he was the first person to describe Cushing's disease. Together with Ernest Sachs, he is known as the "father of neurosurgery."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth8 April 1869
CityCleveland, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
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Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.
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I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
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The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
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In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
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There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.
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Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.