Michael Faraday Quotes
If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.
Faraday, Michael. "Observations on Mental Education." Lectures on Education Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, John W. Parker and Son, 1855, p. 40.
Ataturk as part of his radical reforms elevated secular teachers to a very high social status and moved science and engineering into the curriculum over the objections of traditionalists and Islamic fundamentalists, and he did this in an overwhelmingly Muslim country.
This quotation split the liberal thought and the feminists of the day. On the one hand he compared women to savages in their intellectual development. However, he clearly attributed that fact to the lack of opportunity for both.
The Russian Jews in the Pale of Russia were constantly persecuted, robbed, and often physically attacked with many killed by the Cossacks. The Pale was an area of Russia that at the time, Jews had to stay within and could not move to other parts of Russia.
Michael Faraday FRS was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis.
