Monday, February 17, 2020

GREAT LIVES : HENRY ADAMS

[2/17, 10:03] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Henry Brooks Adams* was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he was secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Yesterday was his birthday. He was born on Feb. 16, 1838.

Grateful thanks to Google and Wikipedia.
[2/17, 10:06] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Some of his famous Quotes*

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

*... they know enough who know how to learn* - 

 *....words are slippery and thought is viscous* - 

 *Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams*

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