“Watch the students at a vivisection. It is the blood and suffering, not the science, that rivet their breathless attention. If hospital service makes young students less tender of suffering, vivisection deadens their humanity, and begets indifference to it.”
Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 310
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Henry Jacob Bigelow7
American surgeon 1818–1890Related quotes
“Vivisection in America”, in Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress, New York and London: Macmillan, 1894, p. 145 https://archive.org/stream/03021000R.nlm.nih.gov/03021000R#page/n158/mode/2up.
Mario Aurelio Poli (1947) Catholic Cardinal from Argentine.
Cardinal calls on faithful to have tender hearts during Lent https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/29155/cardinal-calls-on-faithful-to-have-tender-hearts-during-lent (5 March 2014)
Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Source: Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) Filipino politician
The Philippine review (Revista filipina) [1921]
Honoré de Balzac book Pierrette
Les souffrances disposent à la dévotion, et presque toutes les jeunes filles, poussées par une tendresse instinctive, inclinent au mysticisme, le côté profond de la religion.
Source: Pierrette (1840), Ch. V: History of Poor Cousins in the Home of Rich Ones.
“Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) American literary theorist
People's Education interview (2007)
Context: Pay attention to your students. Hear what they say, try to find out what their capacities are, what make sense to them. Adapt what you are doing and saying to those capacities, but make your students stretch upward. I think the trick is to adapt to the level of a student, but never rest on that level — always make them reach out. … If a student does not quite get it the first time, he or she will come back and get it later. If you don’t set your writing — and teaching — at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
