Bernard Iddings Bell Born : 1886 Died : 1958 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Bernard Iddings Bell A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. Bernard Iddings Bell preparation education men To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. Bernard Iddings Bell artist goal men To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself. Bernard Iddings Bell love-you love-is order The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience. Bernard Iddings Bell freedom each-day men The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character. Bernard Iddings Bell character years school
