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John Lancaster Spalding on Graduation

1840–1916 United States

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Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

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