Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Simon Baker, Actor (1969) |
Quico Canseco, Politician (1949) |
Bill Cartwright, Athlete (1957) |
Henry Ford, Businessman (1863) |
William H. Gass, Novelist (1924) |
Harriet Harman, Politician (1950) |
Osama Bin Laden, Criminal (1957) |
Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1901) |
Bao Dai, Statesman (1997) |
Lynn Fontanne, Actress (1983) |
Joyce Kilmer, Poet (1918) |