George Peabody quotes

George Peabody quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Education : a debt due from present to future generations.”
-- George Peabody

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“Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.”
-- George Peabody

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“Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.”

Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”
“I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.”
“Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.”
“The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.”
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
“The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.”
“Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.”
“I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.”

Source : 'Songs and Other Poems' (2nd ed., 1664) pt. 1 'The Mad Lover'
“I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.”

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