Source: Democracy in America, Volume I (1835), Chapter XV-IXX, Chapter XV.
“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
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Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
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Edwin Ladd, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University (August, 1990), as quoted by Lincoln J. Greenhill at Harvard University http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~lincoln/
Reinhard Selten
(1930–2016) German economist
Reinhard Selten (2004), as cited in: Klein, Daniel B., Ryan Daza, and Hannah Mead. " Reinhard Selten (Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates) http://econjwatch.org/file_download/768/SeltenIPEL.pdf." Econ Journal Watch 10.3 (2013): 601-604.
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech on Reform Bill of 1867, Edinburgh, Scotland (29 October 1867), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 289.
Edith Hamilton
(1867–1963) American teacher and writer
Saturday Evening Post (27 September 1958); also in Adventures of the Mind : From the Saturday Evening Post (1962), by Richard Thruelsen and John Kobler
Context: It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated.