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ELIOT, Charles W. Quotes

(1834-1926), American educator

Business

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Education

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Jews

No race has ever surpassed the Jewish descriptions of either the beauties or the terrors of the nature which environs man.

Teaching

The fear of losing one's job has kept education in America fifty years behind its possible improvement.

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