Sunday, October 26, 2008

Education makes the man


October 21, 1833 -- Alfred Nobel (pictured) was born. He invented dynamite, and established the Nobel Prize.

"Prizes bring bad luck...They encourage hypocrisy." -- Charles Baudelaire.

October 20, 1859 -- American educator John Dewey was born.

"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent." -- John Maynard Keynes.

October 19, 1685 -- English physician and author Sir Thomas Browne was born. He wrote:

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

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