Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Dale Pendell

Quote by Dale Pendell

Work

Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Dale Pendell

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Dale Pendell. more

You May Also Like

“Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.”

IndividualityFlawsBe Yourself
Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Create image

“All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence.”

EducationLibertyIndividuality
Book:On Liberty
Create image