Edwin Chadwick Quotes

CHADWICK, Edwin Quotes

(1801-1890), English social reformer

Education

There is a moral as well as an intellectual objection to the custom, frequent in these times, of making education consist in a mere smattering of twenty different things, instead of in the mastery of five or six.

Intellect

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecrated intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.