Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.
Thomas HuxleyIt is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Thomas HuxleySurely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Thomas HuxleyIf then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.
Thomas Huxley