“How can resourcefulness be acquired? Do it by pumping into man information? No, not at all. There is only one thing that will really train the human mind, and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and, above all, you may inspire him; but the only thing that is worth having is that he gets by his own exertions, and what he gets is proportional to the effort he puts into it. It is the voluntary exercise of his own mind and I care very little about what he exercises it upon…”
A. Lawrence Lowell (1939)
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