Everett Dean Martin: Quotes about men

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“Standardization develops a kind of mass mind, which in mature years renders men very susceptible to crowd appeal.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 74

“What the state desires of education is soldiers, reliable voters, law-abiding citizens, contented working men, prosperous traders. Hence a spirit of docility and credulity, often of timidity, prevails in the school.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 74

“Seek education for yourself and it is the search for the good life. From ancient times men have sought knowledge that they might become better judges of good and evil.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 180

“Common men cherish their naive faiths and ask no questions.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 85

“Crowd men have no sense of humor. It is very difficult to educate solemn and opinionated people.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 89

“It is children and savages and the illiterate who have the most implicit faith. It is said that unbelief is sin. This is not so; it is nobler to doubt than to believe, for to doubt is often to take sides with fact against oneself. Nietzsche said that this is characteristic of "higher men."”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 88

“Moral training which does not encourage critical examination of popular ideas of what is right and good, does not tend to make men better, but only of one mind.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 183

“Education has to do with insight, with valuing, with understanding, with the development of the power of discrimination, the ability to make choice amongst the possibilities of experience and to think and act in ways that distinguish men from animals and higher men from lower.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: The Meaning of a Liberal Education (1926), p. 42

“Probably the greatest difference among men is this difference in habits of thought. There are some minds which behave merely like the mechanic who having learned his trade in a certain way never can function in any other.”

Everett Dean Martin

Source: Psychology: What it has to Teach You about Yourself and Your World (1924), p. 83