Quote of the day
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
Charles William Eliot
Born: March 20, 1834
Died: August 22, 1926 (aged 92)
Bio: Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university.
Known for:
- Harvard Classics (1909)
- Four American Leaders (1906)
- The Happy Life (1895)
- Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses (1898)
- The Training for an Effective Life (1915)