Mary Hatwood Futrell famous quotes

Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.
-- Mary Hatwood Futrell

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When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher, a miracle unfolds.
-- Mary Hatwood Futrell

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Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.
-- Mary Hatwood Futrell

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Don’t allow circumstance to hold you back- even negative ones. You don’t have to let your circumstances define you. You can define yourself, and the best way to find yourself is through education.
-- Mary Hatwood Futrell

#Finding Yourself #Negative #Way

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.