Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNERInstitutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound
ABRAHAM FLEXNERMedical 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 FLEXNERUnintelligence 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe 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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAs 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
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions .
ABRAHAM FLEXNERWe must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThe more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAs far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAt no period of [Michael Faraday’s] unmatched career was he interested in utility.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERYou have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERThere are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERNo nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERNations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education.
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