Virginia Gildersleeve famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Past #Thinking #Community
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Good Life #College #Mind
The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Peace #War #Government
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Education #Spiritual #War
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Acceptance #Men #England
...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Drifting
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Sex #Men #Essentials
...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.
-- Virginia Gildersleeve

#Jobs #Get Better #Males

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I am not one of those people who will ever be comfortable mocking or making caricatures of the stereotypes attached to any community.
The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves â€“ in their separate, and individual capacities.
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

Virginia Gildersleeve famous quotes

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