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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams
Inspirational, Leadership, Education
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

They know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams
Education, Teacher, Learning
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams
Education, Teaching, Ignorance
'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Henry Adams
Education, Teacher, Retirement
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.56, Booklassic

At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

Henry Adams
Education, Teacher, Men
Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Henry Adams
Life, Trust, Education
Henry Adams, Ernest Samuels (1992). “Henry Adams, Selected Letters”, p.286, Harvard University Press

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams
Education, Mind, Purpose
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.78, Booklassic

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams
Education, Choices, Mind
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

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