The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
More Abraham Flexner Quotes
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The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships-a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history.
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At no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
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Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.
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Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients… it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
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Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
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Which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
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