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Ezra Cornell
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“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
Ezra Cornell (1807–1874) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement by Cornell in 1868 that became the founding principle and motto of Cornell University.
“The individual is better, society is better, and the state is better, for the culture of its citizens; therefore we desire to extend the means for the culture of all.”
Ezra Cornell (1807–1874) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address on the morning of 7 October 1868, as quoted by Carl L. Becker, John Wendell Anderson Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941, in Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943), Ithaca:…
“I hope we have laid the foundation of an institution which shall combine practical with liberal education, which shall fit the youth of our country for the professions, the farms, the mines, the manufactories, for the investigations of science, and for mastering all the practical questions of life with success and honor.”
Ezra Cornell (1807–1874) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address on the morning of 7 October 1868, as quoted by Carl L. Becker, John Wendell Anderson Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941, in Cornell University: Founders and the Founding (1943), Ithaca:…