Quote#Education
It teaches us first by tutors and books, to learn that which is…
Quote byMichael Faraday · 1791–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403.
English (original)
It teaches us first by tutors and books, to learn that which is already known to others, and then by the light and methods which belong to science to learn for ourselves and for others; so making a fruitful return to man in the future for that which we have obtained from the men of the past.
— Michael Faraday
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