John Stuart Mill
Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal; worked for the East India Company for almost thirty-five years; elected Member of Parliament for Westminster in 1865.
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Their wordsIt is not a place of professional education. Universities are not intended to teach the knowledge required to fit men for some special mode of gaining their livelihood. Their object is not to make skilful lawyers, or physicians, or engineers, but capable and cultivated human beings.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 1st of 7 in this piece
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Educate people to be capable and sensible, and they will make themselves capable professionals
Their wordsMen are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 2nd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsIn what consists the principal and most characteristic difference between one human intellect and another? In their ability to judge correctly of evidence.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 3rd of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsOf Logic I venture to say, even if limited to that of mere ratiocination, the theory of names, propositions, and the syllogism, that there is no part of intellectual education which is of greater value, or whose place can so ill be supplied by anything else.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 4th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsBad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 5th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsAn University ought to be a place of free speculation. The more diligently it does its duty in all other respects, the more certain it is to be that.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 6th of 7 in this piece
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Their wordsThose who know how to employ opportunities will often find that they can create them: and what we achieve depends less on the amount of time we possess, than on the use we make of our time.
↗Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews (1867)en.wikisource.org 7th of 7 in this piece
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