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.
ABRAHAM FLEXNERAbraham 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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We 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
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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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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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The spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them.
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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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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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