Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry AdamsThe spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.
Henry AdamsAmerican art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
Henry Adams