Jan 9, 2009

Famous Quotes | He did not go to the college...

He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished.... But he went to the great university of the West, where he sedulously pursued the study of Liberty, for which he had early betrayed a fondness, and having taken many degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of Humanity in Kansas, as you all know. Such were his humanities, and not any study of grammar. He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. - Henry David Thoreau Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1859), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4, p. 411, Houghton Mifflin (1906).

Categories: Author, Brown, John, Education, Liberty, Naturalist, Philosopher