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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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The more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
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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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Unintelligence could go no further! … In Great Britain, the situation is similar. … Until the figures are reversed, … nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
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He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles.
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No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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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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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking .
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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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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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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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As to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex
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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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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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