The habit of looking at life as a social relation an affair of society did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college standard permanent through life.
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Henry Adams was a 19th-century American historian and adams political family member. Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Education — The importance of teaching, learning, and intellectual curiosity