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People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

Thomas Huxley
Teaching, People, Intellectual
Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

Thomas Huxley
Education, Teaching, Men
Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.211, University of Georgia Press

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

Thomas Huxley
Education, Teaching, Care

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

Thomas Huxley
Education, Teaching, Law
Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive.

Thomas Huxley
Nature, Work, Teaching
Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.66

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.

Thomas Huxley
Art, Teaching, Rome
Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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