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“Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.”

Knows Years Humans Ends School Winning Ability Education Study Figures Students Prize Copies

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.”

Men Mind Children Ideas Girl Education Imagine Figures Perfection Noble Sentiments Imaginary Daydreaming Extravagant Enchanting

Book:A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

Source: A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac

“Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.”

Ifs Men Mind Kind Book Evil Education Silence Figures Blind Maps Professors Cynical Academia Subjection Evil Things Diagrams

Book:Daughter of Earth

Source: Daughter of Earth