... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.
Mary Barnett GilsonMen's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.
Mary Barnett Gilson... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
Mary Barnett GilsonI complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the happynecessity of self-support had not fallen to my lot; if self-support had not deepened and widened my contacts and my experience.
Mary Barnett GilsonTo find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.
Mary Barnett GilsonThe new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.
Mary Barnett Gilson