“All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.”

— Mark Hopkins (educator)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.

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American educationalist and theologian 1802–1887

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